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Policy Narratives and Policy Processes

Policy Studies Journal, 2011
The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) has influenced a generation of policy scholars with its emphasis on causal drivers, testable hypotheses, and falsification. Until recently, the role of policy narratives has been largely neglected in ACF literature partially because much of that work has operated outside of traditional social science principles ...
Elizabeth A. Shanahan, Michael D. Jones, Mark K. McBeth   +2 more
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Discretion in the Policy Process

2019
This chapter examines discretion in the policy process. On the basis of an examination of the theoretical literature, some specific insights are identified. First, discretion concerns the freedom to act as granted in a set of rules. Second, the way a rule is applied leaves the rule intact.
Hupe, Peter, Hill, MJ
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Monetary Policy: Processes and Policies

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1978
Monetary integration has had an ill-starred journey throughout the twenty year life of the European Community. The issue has been raised most recently by Commission President Roy Jenkins. Its repeated revival, along with the recurrent failures to achieve a sustained success, reveal both its central place in Community affairs and the peculiar ...
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The Policy Process

2023
Abstract Health advocates engage with policy at many levels throughout their work. This chapter takes the reader through what is necessary and a crucial awareness of how to work with policy processes. Identifying policy problems kicks off the policy process.
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The policy process

2003
Earlier chapters in this book have introduced the machinery of government and the wider political, social and economic environment within which it operates. This chapter examines how government works in terms of how it deals with political issues and the nature of the public policy that emerges.
Bill Coxall, Lynton Robins, Robert Leach
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The Social Policy Process

1979
The 1960s saw the British social policy debate transformed. The assumptions of the 1950s were swept aside, and poverty and inequality were reinstated as critical social issues. While the rediscovery of poverty did not come as a sudden blinding revelation, one dimension of hardship after another was thrust firmly into political consciousness, and the ...
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An Introduction to the Policy Process

2019
A concise, accessible introduction to the public policy process that can be read on may levels. The author's direct writing style and extensive use of examples will appeal to students as well as practitioners. The book offers an extensive overview of the best current thinking on the policy process, with an emphasis on accessibility and synthesis rather
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Agricultural Policy and Policy Processes

1994
Despite the fact that it accounts for only 2.5 per cent of EU GDP and 5.5 per cent of EU employment, agriculture looms large in the life of the EU. It does so in three main ways. First, the EU has, via the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), major policy-making and decision-making responsibilities for agriculture.
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The policy process

New Directions for Student Services, 1994
AbstractThis chapter presents definitions of policy, explains the policy process, and offers suggestions on how campus administrators can shape the development of educational policy.
Michael D. Coomes, Donald Hossler
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The Policy Process

1992
Most political science (and most of this book) discusses the framework of political institutions and processes within which government policies are formed. Little attention is given to the substance of these policies — their ideological flavour, their impact on society, their success or failure.
Rod Hague, Martin Harrop, Shaun Breslin
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