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Showing 1 to 20 of 775 for “"Policy-making"”.
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Agricultural policy-making in the Eisenhower administration
<p>This dissertation traces agricultural policy—making during the Eisenhower Administration. Four specific goals are involved. First, by providing a general review of the Eisenhower farm programs, this work continues the efforts of many scholars to provide a collection of monographs tracing …
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Images of China in U.S. foreign policy making
This thesis tests the hypothesis that the U.S. policy makers, represented by Secretary of State Dean Acheson during the Truman Administration, adopted a hostile image of Communist China after the Chinese intervention in the Korean War. To examine Acheson's image of Communist China, the research …
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Policy making and civic involvement: Apathy or impotence?
… involved in politics. However, I will argue that policy makers misconstrue their perception of the public because they are operating from paradigms which are not democratic. When policy makers operate from these faulty paradigms, the role of the public becomes subordinated and the public is …
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The policy making processes of the European Community
The thesis looks at the policy making processes of the European Community by testing four theoretical explanations against three cases. The reluctance to reform the Common Agricultural Policy, import restrictions on Japanese cars, and car exhaust emissions standards are the three cases examined. …
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Young people's participation in social services policy making
… rights and competence to participate in decision making. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Children Act 1989 identifies their right to participate in social services decision making. Much of the published information on their participation has focused on involvement …
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Transit preferential treatment : a public policy-making perspective
… achieved their implementation through particular policymaking processes; moreover the generalization of these types of policies has been very limited. The objectives of this thesis are to apply the three models from the agenda-building theory (Mobilization, Inside Access and Outside Initiative) to …
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Civil society in Wales and European Union policy-making
… role that civil society plays in European Union policy-making and its democratic effects. It seeks to find out how, why, where and what civil society in Wales engages and does not engage in European Union policy-making. A contextual political opportunity structure (POS) approach is employed to …
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State Level Mental Health Policy Making Under Managed Care
… new development in state mental health policy during the 1990s. The introduction of managed care for public mental health occurred primarily through the use of Medicaid managed care waivers, but not all states used this method, and not all states adopted mental health managed care …
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Offshore Oil Politics: A Study in Public Policy Making
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The Legislature in Immigration Policy-Making: A Liberal Constraint?
… last thirty years, research on the immigration policy-making of liberal democratic states has been preoccupied with the puzzle of why migrant inflows have reached unprecedented levels in Western countries, despite popular calls for restrictionism. A common response of scholars to this puzzle is …
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Education production functions in policy making: a critical analysis
… standards of adequacy, and implications for policy were addressed. Selected studies and dissertations published since the Equal Education Opportunity Report that identified any positive significant relationship between financial resources and student achievement were evaluated. Each study was …
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To what extent do prescriptive decision-making models comprehend policy-making in the Third World with reference to South African environmental policy-making?
Policy research and analysis is a complex and dynamic field of study and practice. This study explores the field i l l terms of assessing the utility of contemporary policy techniques ill the intematiollal context and the implications thereof for environmental policy-making in South Africa. More …
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Understanding 'what works': Evidence based regional policy making in England.
… and unsystematic evidence use within policy making processes. It is also argued that the development of a knowledge translation tool, operationalised through an evaluation and monitoring framework from the start of an organisation's existence, may facilitate the collection of more …
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Learning how to learn in the Chinese policy making process
… accepted that a decentralised system can enhance policy learning and the spread of best practices, an under-researched question is where that learning process takes place, and another more important and intriguing question is what supports and sustains that learning. As a highly decentralised …
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Policy communities and policy networks : educational policy making in Saskatchewan
The purpose of the study was to describe the policy community within which educational policies are currently developed in Saskatchewan. The study used the policy-community/ policy-network conceptual framework of Atkinson and Coleman (1985) and Coleman and Skogstad (199Gb). The assumption was made …
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Interest groups and policy-making: the welfare state, 1942-1964
… labour organisations towards government social policy after the publication of the Beveridge Report in 1942. The reform of state welfare in the 1940s meant that employers and trade unions became more involved in the administration than in the provision of social services. The process entailed a …
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Through the Social Web: Citizen-led Participation in Ontario Policy-making
… In this dissertation I draw upon studies of the policy-making process and media design, to examine the implications of citizen-led production of infrastructures for public participation in policy-making through the social web and within the context of open government discourse. My research …
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