[PDF] Policy Paradigms In Theory And Practice eBook

Author : John Hogan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 49,51 MB
Release : 2015-07-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 113743404X

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The contributors investigate policy paradigms and their ability to explain the policy process actors, ideas, discourses and strategies employed to provide readers with a better understanding of public policy and its dynamics.

Author : Luciano L'Abate
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 37,76 MB
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1461409144

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Within the field of psychology there is a proliferation of paradigms, theories, models, and dimensions without an underlying conceptual framework or theory. This conclusion has been reached by representatives of many different psychological specialties. In response to this inconsistency this book presents a hierarchical framework about important theoretical issues that are present in psychological thinking. These issues concern definitions of three major theoretical concepts in theory and practice: (a) paradigms, (b) theories, and (c) models. It focuses on defining, comparing, and contrasting these three conceptual terms. This framework clarifies differences among paradigms, theories, and models, terms which have become increasingly confused in the psychological literature. Paradigms are usually confused with theories or with models while theories are confused with models. Examples of misuses of these terms suggest the need for a hierarchical structure that views paradigms as conceptual constructions overseeing a variety of psychological theories and verifiable models.

Author : John Hogan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 21,86 MB
Release : 2015-07-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 113743404X

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The contributors investigate policy paradigms and their ability to explain the policy process actors, ideas, discourses and strategies employed to provide readers with a better understanding of public policy and its dynamics.

Author : Marcus Carson
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,18 MB
Release : 2009
Category : European Union countries
ISBN : 9783631579053

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Policy action is driven, shaped and regulated by the ways in which cognitive frames and interests shape and define issues and analyses - and the involvement of particular authorities, experts, problem-definitions and solutions. To understand these processes is particularly important in the realm of democratic policymaking, where agents driven by divergent interests and alternative principles struggle to preserve or reform policy, law, and institutions. This book analyzes continuity and change in EU policy and provides a systematic understanding of the interactions between ideas, organized actors, and institutions in political, administrative and related social processes. The EU policy studies make up a rich empirical territory, ranging from food security and chemicals to energy, climate change, and gender.

Author : Donna M. Mertens
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 39,58 MB
Release : 2012-02-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1462503241

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This engaging text takes an evenhanded approach to major theoretical paradigms in evaluation and builds a bridge from them to evaluation practice. Featuring helpful checklists, procedural steps, provocative questions that invite readers to explore their own theoretical assumptions, and practical exercises, the book provides concrete guidance for conducting large- and small-scale evaluations. Numerous sample studies—many with reflective commentary from the evaluators—reveal the process through which an evaluator incorporates a paradigm into an actual research project. The book shows how theory informs methodological choices (the specifics of planning, implementing, and using evaluations). It offers balanced coverage of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods approaches. Useful pedagogical features include: *Examples of large- and small-scale evaluations from multiple disciplines. *Beginning-of-chapter reflection questions that set the stage for the material covered. *"Extending your thinking" questions and practical activities that help readers apply particular theoretical paradigms in their own evaluation projects. *Relevant Web links, including pathways to more details about sampling, data collection, and analysis. *Boxes offering a closer look at key evaluation concepts and additional studies. *Checklists for readers to determine if they have followed recommended practice. *A companion website with resources for further learning.

Author : Henry Carey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 19,50 MB
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108483720

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Peacebuilding is explained by combining interpretive frameworks (paradigms) that have evolved from the subfields of international relations and comparative politics.

Author : Jacob Torfing
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 18,12 MB
Release : 2020-04-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1788971221

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This enlightening book scrutinizes the shifting governance paradigms that inform public administration reforms. From the rise to supremacy of New Public Management to new the growing preference for alternatives, four world-renowned authors launch a powerful and systematic comparison of the competing and co-existing paradigms, explaining the core features of public bureaucracy and professional rule in the modern day.

Author : Frank Fischer
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 28,63 MB
Release : 2012-06-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 082235263X

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Sheds new light on the ways that policy is communicatively created, conveyed, understood, and implemented

Author : M. Granger Morgan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 44,37 MB
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1316886999

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Many books instruct readers on how to use the tools of policy analysis. This book is different. Its primary focus is on helping readers to look critically at the strengths, limitations, and the underlying assumptions analysts make when they use standard tools or problem framings. Using examples, many of which involve issues in science and technology, the book exposes readers to some of the critical issues of taste, professional responsibility, ethics, and values that are associated with policy analysis and research. Topics covered include policy problems formulated in terms of utility maximization such as benefit-cost, decision, and multi-attribute analysis, issues in the valuation of intangibles, uncertainty in policy analysis, selected topics in risk analysis and communication, limitations and alternatives to the paradigm of utility maximization, issues in behavioral decision theory, issues related to organizations and multiple agents, and selected topics in policy advice and policy analysis for government.