Politics and Policy Implementation in the Third World

Politics and Policy Implementation in the Third World

Author: Merilee S. Grindle

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2017-03-14

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1400886082

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This book addresses the broader questions of how both the content and the context of public policy affect its implementation. Through a series of case studies from Mexico, Peru, Brazil, Colombia, Zambia, Kenya, and India, ten scholars here demonstrate that numerous factors intervene between the statement of policy goals and their actual achievement in society. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.


Politics and Policy Implementation

Politics and Policy Implementation

Author: Frederick A. Lazin

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1438410247

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This book analyzes how the political system influences domestic policy implementation in Israel. It shows how coalition politics, party dominated ministries, an independent and fragmented Jewish Agency, diaspora Jewish communities, powerful mayors, and ethnic considerations influenced the implementation of Begin's Project Renewal, a hybrid of the American War on Poverty, Urban Renewal, and Model Cities. It also reveals how Project Renewal initiated change in Israel's political institutions and public policy system.


Uneven Social Policies

Uneven Social Policies

Author: Sara Niedzwiecki

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-09-06

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 1108472044

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Social policies can transform the lives of the poor, yet subnational politics and state capacity often inhibit their success.


The Politics of Evaluation

The Politics of Evaluation

Author: Taylor, David

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2005-01-19

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1861346050

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The widespread popularity of evaluation is based on the need to provide evidence of the effectiveness of policies and programmes. This book sees evaluation as an inherently political activity, and using a wide range of examples it relates practical issues in evaluation design to their political contexts.


Policy Problems and Policy Design

Policy Problems and Policy Design

Author: B. Guy Peters

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2018-07-27

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1786431351

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Public policy can be considered a design science. It involves identifying relevant problems, selecting instruments to address the problem, developing institutions for managing the intervention, and creating means of assessing the design. Policy design has become an increasingly challenging task, given the emergence of numerous ‘wicked’ and complex problems. Much of policy design has adopted a technocratic and engineering approach, but there is an emerging literature that builds on a more collaborative and prospective approach to design. This book will discuss these issues in policy design and present alternative approaches to design.


Making Politics Work for Development

Making Politics Work for Development

Author: World Bank

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2016-07-14

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 1464807744

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Governments fail to provide the public goods needed for development when its leaders knowingly and deliberately ignore sound technical advice or are unable to follow it, despite the best of intentions, because of political constraints. This report focuses on two forces—citizen engagement and transparency—that hold the key to solving government failures by shaping how political markets function. Citizens are not only queueing at voting booths, but are also taking to the streets and using diverse media to pressure, sanction and select the leaders who wield power within government, including by entering as contenders for leadership. This political engagement can function in highly nuanced ways within the same formal institutional context and across the political spectrum, from autocracies to democracies. Unhealthy political engagement, when leaders are selected and sanctioned on the basis of their provision of private benefits rather than public goods, gives rise to government failures. The solutions to these failures lie in fostering healthy political engagement within any institutional context, and not in circumventing or suppressing it. Transparency, which is citizen access to publicly available information about the actions of those in government, and the consequences of these actions, can play a crucial role by nourishing political engagement.


Successful Public Policy

Successful Public Policy

Author: Joannah Luetjens

Publisher: ANU Press

Published: 2019-04-30

Total Pages: 551

ISBN-13: 1760462799

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In Australia and New Zealand, many public projects, programs and services perform well. But these cases are consistently underexposed and understudied. We cannot properly ‘see’—let alone recognise and explain—variations in government performance when media, political and academic discourses are saturated with accounts of their shortcomings and failures, but are next to silent on their achievements. Successful Public Policy: Lessons from Australia and New Zealand helps to turn that tide. It aims to reset the agenda for teaching, research and dialogue on public policy performance. This is done through a series of close-up, in-depth and carefully chosen case study accounts of the genesis and evolution of stand-out public policy achievements, across a range of sectors within Australia and New Zealand. Through these accounts, written by experts from both countries, we engage with the conceptual, methodological and theoretical challenges that have plagued extant research seeking to evaluate, explain and design successful public policy. Studies of public policy successes are rare—not just in Australia and New Zealand, but the world over. This book is embedded in a broader project exploring policy successes globally; its companion volume, Great Policy Successes (edited by Paul ‘t Hart and Mallory Compton), is published by Oxford University Press (2019).


The Politics of the Environment

The Politics of the Environment

Author: Neil Carter

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-08-09

Total Pages: 459

ISBN-13: 1108472303

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Revised to include new discussions on climate justice, green political parties, climate legislation and recent environmental struggles.