... help to generate broad political support for a social policy. Moreover, its creation provides a powerful example of the role that path dependency has played in the development of higher education policy. In addition to illustrating the significance of policy design to the political viability of social...

... and engaged scholars. The chapter reinforces the need for change in conventional policy design, but what is clearly articulated is the growing questioning of the limitations, appropriateness and sustainability of the conventional policy process from in and outside. Nevertheless, the scope for change...

... that of PL according to the t-test at the significance level 1 percent for the error values at the seventh iteration. Figure 10.3 Semiconductor exposure apparatus. This chapter describes real-world applications of active learning techniques: sampling policy design in reinforcement...

... Not In My Backyard NIMBY activism Schüller David Political economy Instruments climate change policy design barriers environmental policy Economists have long argued that market-based instruments, such as environmental taxes, and emission trading systems, are the superior way to offset the negative...

... consequences legitimacy Bismarck Otto von planning governance strategies large-scale planning policy design coordination state goals government actions Who could be opposed to planning? The world is a chaotic, sometimes dangerous place. Surely it makes sense to identify current and future threats...

... technologies. MEU maximum expected utility principle Public policy and tragic choices Calabresi Guido and Philip Bobbitt on tragic choices in public policy Kidney transplant allocation Culyer Anthony on deliberative institutional design ethics and policy design policy tragic choices allocating kidneys...

...With the help of two examples, this chapter illustrates the usefulness of agent-based models as tools for economic policy design. The first example applies a financial market model in which the order flow of speculators, relying on technical and fundamental analysis, generates intricate price...

... Sambamoorthi U Semega J L Vyas R Erkulwater J L Liebfried S Wildavsky A Gould E Wilson V safety net policy social provision social policy race racial inequality policy design decentralized policy subnational Sarah K. Bruch an associate professor in the Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public...

... Germany New Zealand policy framing policy design meat substitutes policy feedback policy sequencing interest groups Organization for Economic Development OECD countries conjoint experiments policy instruments campaigns regulatory policies taxes China China food system transformation...

... synthesis oriented design user oriented design change oriented design Design design science policy design public administration literature review Public sector organisations face many intractable issues, such as climate change, migration and integration, chronic diseases, aging and inequality...

...Policy design is a type of policy formulation activity centred on knowledge application in the creation of policy alternatives. Expected to attain public sector goals and government ambitions in an effective fashion, it can be undertaken many different ways. The current literature on policy design...

...Policy design has returned to the centre of discussions of public policy, both for academics and practitioners. With that interest in policy design has come an interest in organisations and institutions that will do the designing, with much of the interest being in structures such as policy...

...By linking contemporary practice using design principles in policy with political science and public administration theories, this book offers a distinctive contribution to debates on policy design. The book is conceived as a conversation between theory and practice. It goes beyond traditional...

.... The discussions then turn to the stability of international environmental agreements, emphasizing the logic of coalition forming (including the applicability of game-theoretical analysis). Finally, chapters address both practical and quantitative aspects of policy design, offering theoretical analyses...

... for the context drawing on four strands of research: varieties of capitalism, Europeanization, legal origin, and administrative traditions. Finally, we derive expectations from these literatures. administrative procedure causation consultation freedom of information ombudsman policy design regulatory impact...

... institutional grammar ombudsman policy design Principal Component Analysis regulatory indicators regulatory impact assessment rule types Before our motivation and theoretical choices hit the road of empirical analysis, we must address the first practical challenge of our research programme: the search...

... policy design policy instruments regulatory reform We started with the question: ‘In what ways does the design of rulemaking procedures, and their interplay, shape governance outcomes?’ After all, those who have designed procedures that open up the policy process, support decision makers with evidence...

...; The Social Construction of Reality; Politics in a World of Multiple Realities; The Political Spectacle as Hyperreality; The Social Meanings of Public Policies; Meaning Construction and the Policy Process: The Typologies of Public Policy; Policy Design: Constructing Target Populations. social meaning elites...

... (macro-level), the dynamics of policy instrument type use (meso-level), and change to policy design (micro-level). We find that, while the crisis marks a turning point in the speed of policy change, the direction of policy change alters only in Ireland and the UK—namely towards policy dismantling...

... and healthy eating public reason ethics framework policy design consultation deliberation In this book we have defended a liberal approach to healthy eating policy that is grounded in the ideals of public justification and public reason. Healthy eating efforts, we have claimed, should be normatively...