Public Policy

In several Western countries, expert commissions composed of academics, public figures, politicians and community organisers, have been established by governments or civil society to reflect on the changes and challenges of an increasingly plural society. This book focuses on the experiences of expe..

Analysing the work of public commissions in Britain, France, Belgium, and Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Singapore and Norway the book reflects on how they were formed, the way they framed religious and cultural diversity, the questions and controversies they examined, the key political acto..

First published in 1998, this volume examines how super-optimum decisions involve finding alternatives to controversies whereby Conservatives, Liberals, or other major groups can all come out ahead of their best initial expectations simultaneously...

Offering the widest breadth of policy issue coverage on the market, this sixth edition covers events through the 2016 elections and beyond. Though the content has been extensively revised, the sixth edition maintains its clear approach, without an overreliance on policy theory...

Identifies the issues, resources, actors, and institutions involved in public policy making and traces the dynamics of the policymaking process, including the triggering of issue awareness, the emergence of an issue on the public agenda, the formation of a policy committment, and the implementation ..

Identifies the issues, resources, actors, and institutions involved in public policy making and traces the dynamics of the policymaking process, including the triggering of issue awareness, the emergence of an issue on the public agenda, the formation of a policy committment, and the implementation ..

While people profess a disdain for politics, in a democracy politics is the primary vehicle for citizens to influence the decisions and decision makers that shape public policy at every level. This work provides an overview of public policymaking in its various aspects...

Drawing on the expertise of a wide range of international scholars, this book is intended to clarify theory and practice surrounding decentralization and local governance initiatives in the Public Sectors of developing and transitional countries._x005F_x000D_ This book was published as a special dou..

Drawing on the expertise of a wide range of international scholars, this book is intended to clarify theory and practice surrounding decentralization and local governance initiatives in the Public Sectors of developing and transitional countries._x005F_x000D_ This book was published as a special dou..

Public Service in a Globalized World..

This title was first published in 2001. This sustained and rigorous theoretical treatment of the choices made by politicians regarding quasi-autonomous non-governmental organizations (quangos) makes compelling reading for both practitioners and academics alike...

This book addresses rampage shootings in Western Europe and their conditional impact on politicization and policy change in the area of gun control...