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The Global Diffusion of Public Policies: Social Construction, Coercion, Competition, or Learning?

, 2007
Social scientists have sketched four distinct theories to explain a phenomenon that appears to have ramped up in recent years, the diffusion of policies across countries.
F. Dobbin, B. Simmons, G. Garrett
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Public policy analysis

2007
This book offers a critical examination of both the discourse and practice of participation in order to understand the significance of this explosion in participatory forums, and the extent to which such practices represent a fundamental change in governance.
Peter Knoepfel, Corinne Larrue, Frédéric Varone, Michael Hill   +3 more
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Public Policies on CSR in Europe: Themes, Instruments, and Regional Differences

, 2012
Governments, in particular in Western Europe, have become increasingly active in promoting and shaping CSR. The present paper conceptually and empirically characterizes the public policies on CSR in Europe.
R. Steurer, Sharon Margula, A. Martinuzzi   +2 more
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Political and monetary institutions and public financial policies in the industrial countries

, 1991
Institutions and policies Vittorio Grilli, Donato Masciandaro and Guido Tabellini Why do countries as similar as the industrialized OECD countries go through such different experience in terms of public deficits and debts or in terms of inflation?
V. Grilli, D. Masciandaro, G. Tabellini
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Policy Consulting and Public Policy

Australian Journal of Public Administration, 2000
The changing nature of governance in Australia over the last two decades has given rise to a broad range of new strategies to review the development and delivery of government policies and programs. Key factors affecting the relationship between citizens and the state have been the deregulation and liberalisation of the Australian economy, with its ...
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Public Policy Resources

2018
Building on Knoepfel’s previous book, Public policy analysis, this book offers a conceptually coherent view of ten public policy resources: force, law, personal, money, property rights, information, organisation, consensus, time and political support.
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Public Policies and FDI Location: Differences Between Developing and Developed Countries

, 2011
Host country government officials in developing and developed countries alike would like to know the impact of their public policies on foreign investment in their countries.
Timothy J. Goodspeed, J. Martínez-Vázquez, Li Zhang   +2 more
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Family Changes and Public Policies in Latin America

, 2011
The transformation of the Latin American family has attracted increasing attention in sociodemographic studies, particularly those oriented from a gender perspective. This article reviews progress in the field and evaluates the links between families and
B. García, O. Oliveira
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Morality and Public Policy

2016
Spanning religion, moral philosophy and scientific understanding of the human conditions, this unique book adds to the latest thinking on morality, proposing ways to enhance the capacity of public policy to respond to morality and associated shifts in social mores in different cultural settings.
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Academics and public policy

2018
Academic researchers are important contributors to the public policy process in Canada and other countries. However, they generally do not contribute directly. First their work tends to pass through the hands others, sometimes called knowledge brokers, before it reaches those who actually make public policy.
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