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Successful Public Policy: Lessons From Australia and New Zealand
Successful Public Policy: Lessons from Australia and New Zealand examines how governments can develop and sustain successful public policies through a collection of detailed case studies from Australia and New Zealand. The book seeks to shift attention from policy failure toward the identification and explanation of effective public policy achievements. It explores the origins, development, imp…
Learning Policy, Doing Policy: Interactions Between Public Policy Theory, Pra…
Learning Policy, Doing Policy explores the relationship between public policy theory, practice, and teaching. The book examines how public servants learn about policymaking, how policy theories are understood and applied in professional practice, and how academic knowledge can contribute to more effective policymaking. It brings together perspectives from policy scholars, teachers, practitioner…
Making Policies Work: First - and Second-order Mechanisms in Policy Design
Making Policies Work: First- and Second-order Mechanisms in Policy Design examines how policy tools and actions produce policy effects and contribute to successful policy outcomes. The book develops a mechanistic perspective that focuses on the causal processes linking policy actions to their effects. It introduces the concepts of first-order and second-order policy mechanisms and explores how …
Public Policy Challenges In Rethinking Public Health: Comparative Perspectives
Public Policy Challenges in Rethinking Public Health: Comparative Perspectives examines the policy challenges of strengthening public health systems in the post-pandemic era. Rather than assuming that public health systems will naturally improve after COVID-19, the book explores why public health remains one of the most complex areas of public policy. Through comparative analyses of eight major…
Routledge Handbook of Public Policy in Africa
Routledge Handbook of Public Policy in Africa provides an authoritative and comprehensive overview of public policy and policymaking processes in Africa. The book examines policy analysis, policymaking, implementation, and public administration within diverse African political and institutional contexts. It brings together multidisciplinary perspectives from scholars, practitioners, researchers…
Social Democratic Capitalism
Social Democratic Capitalism examines which combination of institutions and policies is most conducive to human flourishing. Drawing on historical and comparative evidence from affluent democratic countries, Lane Kenworthy argues that social democratic capitalism—combining democracy, capitalism, high-quality education, an expansive welfare state, employment-oriented public services, and moder…
Public Policy and Research in Africa
Public Policy and Research in Africa responds to the need for a specifically African perspective on public policy research. The book examines fundamental principles and major issues in public policy, including the role of social sciences, policy analysis and innovation, research methodology, governance, leadership, political economy, gender and diversity, and the global context of policymaking.…
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