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Showing 1 to 20 of 185 for “"policy process"”.
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Adaptive water governance: flood management and the policy process in Scotland
… of adaptive water governance in the policy process, and draws lessons of policy relevance for flood management. Scholars using the concept of adaptive water governance posit that factors influencing the governing activities of social actors are of critical importance to improve …
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Using energy-economic-environmental models in the climate change policy process
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1992.
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Effect of a federal law on state policy process and on local implementation
This study described the state policy-making process as it was affected by the impact of the 1976 Federal Vocational Amendments. The roles of the state level actors were investigated in order to explain the process by which policy was developed. The impact on the local division was analyzed in …
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The Irish adult education policy process since 1997: some lessons for the future
This thesis examines Irish adult education policy making since 1997 to identify lessons for future development of the sector. It is aimed at adult education stakeholders, policy makers and researchers to provide them with a deeper understanding of adult education policy making so that they can …
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Discourses of Power and Resistance in the Water Policy Process of Delhi, India
… starting point a critique of linear version of policy making, this research attempts to explain how and why particular types of knowledge, practices and values get established in policy as well as the complex interplay of knowledge, power and agency in water policy processes of NCT Delhi, India.
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The Emergence and Persistence of Entrepreneurship Policy — A Policy Process Perspective [before doctoral defense]
… emergence and persistence of entrepreneurship policy across OECD countries in the developed world. The term entrepreneurship policy refers to a set of public policy instruments aimed at promoting entrepreneurship in specific socioeconomic contexts. These instruments include support services, …
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Oil and the Policy Process: The Causes and Effects of The Oil Depletion Allowance
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Characterizing the Construct of Organizational Unity of Effort In the Interagency National Security Policy Process
… the U.S. interagency national security process. More recently, the tragic events of 9-11 have further refocused national security endeavors inward to homeland security imperatives while Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom have revalidated the need effective interagency …
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Sources of Change in Community Forestry - The Roles of Learning and Beliefs in the Policy Process
Community forestry has become a prominent policy instrument over the past decades as a response to deforestation pressures and rural poverty. Its political implementation involves a complex process with a profound structural change - away from state-based forestry to locally based decision-making …
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Education Language Policy Process in Multilingual Societies: Global Visions and Local Agendas in India, Nigeria and Unesco
… comparative analysis examines education language policy process in India, Nigeria and UNESCO to understand the entrenchment of marginalizational language policies in spite of recent paradigm shifts in relevant scholarship. These include the shift from monolingualism to multilingualism as ideal for …
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Health sector reforms: Factors influencing the policy process for government initiatives in the Punjab (Pakistan) health sector 1993-2000
… aims to explore factors that influenced the policy process for the health sector reforms undertaken by the government and to draw lessons for contributing to ongoing and future initiatives. In preparing to achieve this aim, frameworks were developed for the health system and the policy …
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Local regulatory and economic instruments to encourage tropical forestry conservation : an analysis of the policy process in Costa Rica and Mexico
… reviews theories and evidence concerning the process of formulating and adopting forest policies. It examines the theory on dynamics of policy processes, analyzing the process that Mexico and Costa Rica follow to slow and even reverse deforestation. In addition to reviewing the publications in …
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Policy-making in the European Union: a study of the nature of the European Union through the examination of its policy process
This study has discussed the policy process of the European Union in order to illuminate major aspects of the nature of this peculiar and unique political system. The discussion necessarily involves an examination of traditional integration theories, but it concentrates primarily on policy analysis …
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At the Intersection of Political Culture and the Policy Process: an Evolution of the Tennessee Value-Added Assessment System Through the Tennessee Legislature
… System (TVAAS) supported Lasswell's (1951) policy process framework and the ecological adaptation of Marshall, Mitchell and Wirt's policy actors model. The study was a retrospective case study employing semi-structured interviews, analysis of documents, and archival records. The following …
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The Policy, Process And Impact Of Whole School Inspection At Primary Level In The Republic Of Ireland From The Perspective Of Some Inspectors And Teachers
… of qualitative research and examines government policy. the process of inspecting and the impact of the operation on selected schools from the vantage point of participating inspectors and teachers. Ihe research is centred on three primary schools that underwent whole school inspection during the …
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Benchmarking Academic Standards : A Policy Trajectory Study.
… This study is concerned with a specific HE policy arising from the National Committee of Enquiry into Higher Education (NCIHE): the benchmarking of academic standards initiative. It is concerned to scrutinise the inception, articulation, progress and implementation of the policy initiative. …
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Inherit the Policy: A Sociocultural Approach to Understanding Evolutionary Biology Policy In South Carolina
… (2001) offered a sociocultural approach to policy that considers cultural and historical influences at all levels of the policy process. Lipsky (1980/2010) and others have identified teachers as de facto policy makers, exercising broad discretion in the execution of their work. This study …
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