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Policy Failure and Policy Change
Comparative Political Studies, 2006The failure of a policy to achieve its goals is often an important reason for the decision to replace it. Failure alone, however, is rarely a sufficient explanation of the timing and direction of policy change. Change follows failure when alternative policies exist that are politically viable—that is, able to garner support from powerful actors—and ...
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Policy Regimes and Policy Change
Journal of Public Policy, 2000The evolution of public policies in the United States has been characterized as a process involving long periods of stability followed by abrupt episodes of substantial change. In this project, we identify strands in the literature and synthesize policy theories into a policy regime model useful in explaining both stability and change.
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This chapter explores the racialized foundations of the United States criminal justice system, from slave patrols to mass incarceration. It critiques colorblind legal ideologies and highlights how punitive policies, especially during the War on Drugs, entrenched systemic inequities.
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Policy Making and Policy Changing
2009Abstract This chapter explains the context which governs social policy and our role as interdisciplinary workers to be agents of social change. Policies grow out of the experience of our daily lives, which includes individual perspectives and values, family experiences, cultural history, and economic forces.
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Policy change and policy analysis
1989This issue contains selection of papers from the 2nd Annual Conference of the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy (ISSDP), which was held in Lisbon, Portugal in March 2008. The goal of the ISSDP, as the name suggests, is to promote research related to policies on how societies respond to illegal drugs and to create an international ...
Peter, Reuter, Bergeron, Henri
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