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Studying educational and social policy
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ISBN: 1135627223 1282374958 9786612374951 1410610438 9781410610430 0805844600 9780805844603 0805844619 9780805844610 9781135627171 9781135627218 9781135627225 1135627215 Year: 2004 Publisher: Mahwah, N.J. L. Erlbaum Associates

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The overall purpose of this text is to introduce beginning researchers to the study of educational and social policy, how it has been examined from a scholarly perspective, and the salient issues to consider in conceptualizing and conducting policy research. The emphasis is on ""introduce,"" as the various policy fields within the public sector (for example, education, energy, health, labor) are much too diverse to include in depth in a single volume on theoretical concepts and research methods. The focus is not so much on the substance of policymaking as on understanding the interplay between

Public policy analysis : an introduction.
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ISBN: 0130976393 Year: 2004 Publisher: Upper Saddle River Pearson Prentice Hall

The political economy of expertise
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ISBN: 1282444565 9786612444562 047202390X 9780472023905 9781282444560 6612444568 0472113984 9780472113989 0472030647 9780472030644 Year: 2004 Publisher: Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press

Handbook of practical program evaluation
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ISBN: 0787967130 Year: 2004 Publisher: San Francisco (Calif.) Jossey-Bass

Deliberative policy analysis : Understanding governance in the network society
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ISBN: 1107137012 1280436557 1139149008 0511180330 0511062117 0511055781 0511490933 0511307284 0511070578 9780511062117 0521823668 9780521823661 0521530709 9780521530705 9780511055782 9780511070570 9780511490934 9780511307287 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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What kind of policy analysis is required now that governments increasingly encounter the limits of governing? Exploring the contexts of politics and policy making, this 2003 book presents an original analysis of the relationship between state and society, and new possibilities for collective learning and conflict resolution. The key insight of the book is that democratic governance calls for a new deliberatively-oriented policy analysis. Traditionally policy analysis has been state-centered, based on the assumption that central government is self-evidently the locus of governing. Drawing on detailed empirical examples, the book examines the influence of developments such as increasing ethnic and cultural diversity, the complexity of socio-technical systems, and the impact of transnational arrangements on national policy making. This contextual approach indicates the need to rethink the relationship between social theory, policy analysis, and politics. The book is essential reading for all those involved in the study of public policy.

Think tank traditions : policy analysis across nations
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ISBN: 0719064783 0719064791 9780719064791 Year: 2004 Publisher: Manchester Manchester university press

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As think tank numbers explode, they have become an integral part of political life. Political leaders, corporations and non-governmental organisations draw upon their expert advice to advance their causes in the battle of ideas.

Think tanks, public policy, and the politics of expertise
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ISBN: 052183029X 0521673941 1107148103 0511195249 0511195907 0511327137 051150988X 128047761X 0511193831 0511194579 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press,

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While the number of think tanks active in American politics has more than quadrupled since the 1970s, their influence has not expanded proportionally. Instead, the known ideological proclivities of many, especially newer think tanks with their aggressive efforts to obtain high profiles, have come to undermine the credibility with which experts and expertise are generally viewed by public officials. This book explains this paradox. The analysis is based on 135 in-depth interviews with officials at think tanks and those in the policy making and funding organizations that draw upon and support their work. The book reports on results from a survey of congressional staff and journalists and detailed case studies of the role of experts in health care and telecommunications reform debates in the 1990s and tax reduction in 2001.

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