Ambiguity and Choice in Public Policy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ambiguity and Choice in Public Policy write by Nikolaos Zahariadis. This book was released on 2003-07-29. Ambiguity and Choice in Public Policy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Zahariadis offers a theory that explains policymaking when "ambiguity" is present—a state in which there are many ways, often irreconcilable, of thinking about an issue. Expanding and extending John Kingdon's influential "multiple streams" model that explains agenda setting, Zahariadis argues that manipulation, the bending of ideas, process, and beliefs to get what you want out of the policy process, is the key to understanding the dynamics of policymaking in conditions of ambiguity. He takes one of the major theories of public policy to the next step in three different ways: he extends it to a different form of government (parliamentary democracies, where Kingdon looked only at what he called the United States's presidential "organized anarchy" form of government); he examines the entire policy formation process, not just agenda setting; and he applies it to foreign as well as domestic policy. This book combines theory with cases to illuminate policymaking in a variety of modern democracies. The cases cover economic policymaking in Britain, France, and Germany, foreign policymaking in Greece, all compared to the U.S. (where the model was first developed), and an innovative computer simulation of the policy process.
Performance Goals in Public Management and Policy
Performance Goals in Public Management and Policy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Performance Goals in Public Management and Policy write by Chan Su Jung. This book was released on 2018-07-27. Performance Goals in Public Management and Policy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Chan Su Jung provides a thorough review of goal ambiguity in the public sector, exploring the general assertions, arguments and empirical evidence regarding performance goal ambiguity, particularly highlighting its causes, consequences, and mediation effects. The author proposes a new conceptual framework for successful analysis of goal ambiguity that can effectively relate to diverse organizational and program characteristics.
Managing Ambiguity
Managing Ambiguity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Managing Ambiguity write by Čarna Brković. This book was released on 2017-07-01. Managing Ambiguity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why do people turn to personal connections to get things done? Exploring the role of favors in social welfare systems in postwar, postsocialist Bosnia and Herzegovina, this volume provides a new theoretical angle on links between ambiguity and power. It demonstrates that favors were not an instrumental tactic of survival, nor a way to reproduce oneself as a moral person. Instead, favors enabled the insertion of personal compassion into the heart of the organization of welfare. Managing Ambiguity follows how neoliberal insistence on local community, flexibility, and self-responsibility was translated into clientelist modes of relating and back, and how this fostered a specific mode of power.
Foreign policy as public policy?
Foreign policy as public policy? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Foreign policy as public policy? write by Klaus Brummer. This book was released on 2019-07-11. Foreign policy as public policy? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines how foreign policy analysis can be enriched by ‘domestic realm’ public policy approaches, concepts and theories. Starting out from the observation that foreign policy has in many ways become more similar to (and intertwined with) ‘domestic’ public policies, it bridges the divide that still persists between the two fields. The book includes chapters by leading experts in their fields on arguably the most important public policy approaches, including, for example, multiple streams, advocacy coalition, punctuated equilibrium and veto player approaches. The chapters explore how the approaches can be adapted and transferred to the study of foreign policy and point to the challenges this entails. By establishing a critical dialogue between approaches in public policy and research on foreign policy, the main contribution of the book is to broaden the available theoretical ‘toolkit’ in foreign policy analysis.
Decision-Making under Ambiguity and Time Constraints
Decision-Making under Ambiguity and Time Constraints - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Decision-Making under Ambiguity and Time Constraints write by Reimut Zohlnhöfer. This book was released on 2016-02-24. Decision-Making under Ambiguity and Time Constraints available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Policy issues have grown ever more complex and politically more contestable. So governments in advanced democracies often do not understand the problems they have to deal with and do not know how to solve them. Thus, rational problem-solving models are highly unconvincing. Conversely, the Multiple-Streams Framework starts out from these conditions, which has led to increasing interest in it. Nevertheless, there has not yet been a systematic attempt to assess the potential of such scholarship. This volume is the first attempt to fill that gap by bringing together a group of international scholars to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the Framework from different angles. Chapters explore systematically and empirically the Framework’s potential in different national contexts and in policy areas from climate change and foreign policy to healthcare and the welfare state.
