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Understanding policy success : rethinking public policy / Allan McConnell.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010Description: xvi, 265 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0230239749
  • 9780230239746
  • 0230239757
  • 9780230239753
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.6 22
LOC classification:
  • JF1525.P6 M66 2010
Contents:
Introduction: The Thorny Problem of Policy Success -- Perspectives On Success: The State of the Discipline -- Policy Success: Definitions and Dimensions -- Dissecting Success: The Spectrum From Success to Failure -- Complexity: The Problem of Identifying and Measuring Success -- Framing Success: Claims, Counter-Claims and Agenda Impact -- Strategies for Policy Making Success: understanding Opportunities and Risks -- Strategies For Evaluating Success: Understanding Payoffs and Pitfalls -- Reflections: Cultivating, Sustaining, Learning From and Predicting Success -- Conclusion: Rethinking Public Policy and Shining a Light in Dark Corners.
Summary: "Success and failure is key to any consideration of public policy but there have been remarkably few attempts systematically to assess the various dimensions and complex nature of policy success. This important new text fills the gap by developing a systematic framework and offering an entirely new way of introducing students to policy analysis"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-256) and index.

Introduction: The Thorny Problem of Policy Success -- Perspectives On Success: The State of the Discipline -- Policy Success: Definitions and Dimensions -- Dissecting Success: The Spectrum From Success to Failure -- Complexity: The Problem of Identifying and Measuring Success -- Framing Success: Claims, Counter-Claims and Agenda Impact -- Strategies for Policy Making Success: understanding Opportunities and Risks -- Strategies For Evaluating Success: Understanding Payoffs and Pitfalls -- Reflections: Cultivating, Sustaining, Learning From and Predicting Success -- Conclusion: Rethinking Public Policy and Shining a Light in Dark Corners.

"Success and failure is key to any consideration of public policy but there have been remarkably few attempts systematically to assess the various dimensions and complex nature of policy success. This important new text fills the gap by developing a systematic framework and offering an entirely new way of introducing students to policy analysis"--Provided by publisher.

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