"This entirely updated and enlarged Second Edition of a landmark reference/text continues to provide comprehensive coverage of every important aspect of policy studies--discussing concepts, methods, utilization, formation, and implementation both internationally and across each level of government."

This title was first published in 2000: A history of the ideas behind public policy studies, which can be defined as the study of the nature, causes and effects of government decisions for dealing with social problems.

Written by nearly 25 authorities in the field, the Handbook of Global International Policy focuses on public policy issues among and within nations on every continent-comparing approaches and applications to real-world problems.
Beginning with a thorough introduction to the subject, the Handbook reviews
former and emerging U.S. decision-making foreign policies in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Africa, and Haiti
rebel conflicts and restored relations among Eritrea, the Sudan, and Ethiopia
Spanish enclaves in Northern Africa
pre- and post-Cold War policies in East Asia, including North and South Korea
arms control and disarmament programs around the world
ongoing risks in the Middle East
nationalism and its effect in Slovenia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
peacekeeping efforts in Eastern Europe by Russia
civil and military relations between North-Rhine Westphalia and the European Union
England's public relations effort regarding European unity
integration and national conflicts of the Zapatista movement in Mexico
Columbia's attempts to apply military control and civil laws to combat internal problems
the findings of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Project case and more
With over 1000 key literature citations and illustrations, the Handbook of Global International Policy serves as timely reading for public administrators and public policy experts, political scientists, economists, sociologists, attorneys, and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.

This title was first published in 2000: A history of the ideas behind public policy studies, which can be defined as the study of the nature, causes and effects of government decisions for dealing with social problems.

The Handbook of Global Technology Policy presents and compares nonideological resolutions to environmental pollution and toxic waste, urbanization and transportation, homelessness, health-care policies around the world. It provides an evaluation of industrial interventions and energy sources, explores flow control and corporate growth, privatization and liberalization, health data networks, and electronic innovation and governance. Other topics include pharmaceutical policies, the state of science and technology in Africa, the reemergence of tuberculosis, wind energy technology development and diffusion in Inner Mongolia, and major problems of policy implementation in India

Public policy analysis can be defined as determining which of various alternative public or governmental policies will most achieve a given set of goals in light of the relations between the policies and the goals. The goal of this volume is to define public policy in depth as well as the five key elements of policy evaluation.

Traditional trade-off thinking says we must accept undesirable costs to get desirable benefits. Win-win thinking says we can avoid the unwanted costs of big deficits and still have economic growth. Such an accomplishment comes about through improved technology, free trade, and public policy. Win-win, or super-optimising, policy is capable of simultaneously achieving both conservative and liberal goals. To be meaningful policies, they may have to satisfy various kinds of feasibility. The text accompanying the tables in this CD-ROM frequently talks about the need to overcome these feasibility hurdles.

Super-Optimizing Examples - Across Public Policy Problems

Peace, Prosperity & Democracy At the Cutting Edge, Volume 1 - Handbook of Peace, Prosperity & Democracy

Analyzing Peace, Prosperity & Democracy - Handbook of Peace, Prosperity & Democracy -- 2

Public administration is the study of methods for improving and understanding how governmental programs are implemented, especially in terms of personnel, financing, and accountability. Through a win-win, or super-optimizing, set of solutions, all parties can find success in the policy process.

Whenever a question of public policy is addressed, heated arguments ensue. Liberals tout one solution, conservatives another, and still others appear who are neither liberal nor conservative but have their own desired solution. In such a heated political atmosphere, legislators and policy makers need to creatively balance competing factions and wants. This book looks at the practical application of creativity in a broad set of policy areas. The chapters take note of diverse topics like merit treatment, technology, vouchers, and budgeting, while also offering theoretical studies of the concept of creativity and its potential in the coming years. Concluding the book is a bibliography of books about creativity.

Selection of essays studying the impact of policy on peace, prosperity, and democracy.

Devising effective and popular public policy is a daunting task. Often, it requires the balancing of diametrically opposed ideas, finding the right mix of liberal, conservative, and independent ideas to make a solid compromise. Being able to please all sides in an argument constitutes the theory of win-win solutions. This book examines win-win as one of several means of making policy. Tackling such important issues as democracy, poverty, and justice, the book serves as a useful guide to anyone working or interested in the creative field of policy formulation and implementation.

Creativity in general can be defined as an ability or an occurrence. Either way, it refers to developing an alternative way of (1) explaining gravity, (2) writing a symphony, (3) lessening the problem of poverty, or (4) dealing with some other subjects. The distinctive aspect of a creative alternative is that it is better on whatever criteria are considered relevant than the alternatives that were previously being considered. A special kind of creativity involves not merely finding a better way of doing things, but of finding a way that exceeds the best initial expectations of whatever sides or viewpoints may have been in contention over how to deal with a problem. That kind of creativity can be referred to as super-optimising creativity. It does more than just find a new better or best alternative. It finds an alternative that is better than what the previous perspectives had as their best expectations, simultaneously across all those previous perspectives. Super-optimising creativity is closely related to super-optimising analysis which refers to methods that are useful in finding alternatives that are capable of exceeding the best expectations of all sides and viewpoints to dispute or dilemmas.

The basic elements of this book involve integrating five policy problems, four developing regions, and four fields of knowledge. The five policy problems are economic, technology, social, political, and legal. The four developing regions are Africa, Asia, East Europe, and Latin America. The four fields of knowledge are natural science, social science, humanities, and law. A part of this book was published as International Policy Studies: A Win-Win Curriculum.

This book is divided into three parts on what to teach, how to teach, and new teaching technologies regarding public administration and public policy. What to teach includes the core of public administration, research methods, ethics education, professionalism, research design and portfolio development. How to teach includes the administrator as teacher, reading/writing case studies, team teaching and instructional design. New teaching technologies include distance learning, Hollywood films and the Internet. Both public administration and public policy are included. Public administration emphasizes personnel, financial and accountability administration. Public policy emphasizes economic, technology, social, political, international and legal policy.

This book reviews win-win policy, the process itself, ideology policy, software, policy goals and economic feasibility. The significance of policy evaluation stand out following the events of 11 September 2001. The available evidence points to very weak evaluation based more on partisan motives rather than win-win thinking.

INTRODUCTION -- WIN-WIN POLICY FOR DEVELOPING NATIONS, SIX EXAMPLES. WIN-WIN DEVELOPMENT ACROSS FOUR CONTINENTS: Policy Analysis, Super-Optimizing, and Developing Nations; Basic Aspects of Policy Analysis; Super-Optimizing; Improving Developmental Policy; Africa Development; Sub-Saharan Africa; North Africa and the Middle East; Asia Development; China, Korea, and Japan; The Philippines, Thailand, and Southeast Asia; India, Pakistan, and South Asia; East Europe Development; Russia and the Former Republics; East Europe Other than Russia; Latin America; South America -- Super-Optimizing Analysis and Constitutional Reform; Central America and the Caribbean; Epilogue; International Interaction for Regional Development. DEVELOPMENTAL POLICY BEYOND THE CUTTING EDGE: Win-Win Policy; Win-Win Global Policy Studies; A Chinese Perspective on Win-Win; Economic Growth and Poverty; Economic Growth and Public Choice -- Law, Religion, and Democracy; Bad Government Often the Cause of Poverty; Developmental Theory and Literature; Development as Freedom; Developmental Policy Literature -- By Regions and Policies; Politics and Bureaucracy; Women in Commonwealth Politics; Bureaucratic Accountability and Policy Evaluation in Third World Countries; Asia Public Policy; Intervention in East Timor and Elsewhere; Cambodia as Bad Foreign Policy; Science in the Future of India and Elsewhere; Africa and Latin America; African Government Reform; Dilemmas and Solutions in the Implementation of Social Policies in Latin America; Teaching International Policy; International Policy Studies at the University of Kentucky. CONTEMPORARY DEVELOPMENTAL POLICY; Win-Win Economic Growth Policy; Long Cycles in International Relations and Win-Win Conditions; Regional Developmental Policy; Regional Integration in West Africa; Africa in the 21st Century?; Social Policy in East Europe; Policy Goals; Prospects for Global Democracy, Prosperity, and Peace; Policy Process; Reality of Planning for Development in the Developing Countries; Obstacles to Public Policy Implementation; Economic Policy; Economic Development and Decentralized Government; Comparative Developmental Policy; Comparative Development -- USA Versus Others. INDEX.

Contemporary Developmental Policy

Handbook of Policy Creativity, Volume 2 - Creativity Causes & Effects

The basic elements of this book involve integrating five policy problems, and four fields of knowledge. The five policy problems are economic, technology, social, political and legal. The four developing regions are Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America. The four fields of knowledge are natural science, social science, humanities and law.

Win-Win Anti-Poverty Policy - Handbook of Win-Win Economics, Volume 3

Combining Capitalism, Socialism & Democracy - Handbook of Win-Win Economics, Volume 2