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Studying Public Policy: Policy Cycles and Policy Subsystems
Michael Howlett,M. Ramesh +1 more
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This book discusses the development of public policy levels, methods, and units in the post-modern era, as well as some of the aspects of policy formation and change that have changed over the years.Abstract:
This book surveys a wealth of British, American, and Canadian studies of public policy making, and proposes a model of the policy process which identifies relevant forces at work in the policy process and aids in the understanding of policy change and development.read more
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Early childhood development coming of age: science through the life course
Maureen M. Black,Maureen M. Black,Susan P. Walker,Lia C. H. Fernald,Christopher T Andersen,Ann M. DiGirolamo,Chunling Lu,Dana Charles McCoy,Günther Fink,Yusra Ribhi Shawar,Jeremy Shiffman,Amanda E. Devercelli,Quentin Wodon,Emily Vargas-Barón,Sally Grantham-McGregor +14 more
TL;DR: Recent scientific progress and global commitments to early childhood development are examined, with new neuroscientific evidence linking early adversity and nurturing care with brain development and function throughout the life course.
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Overcoming the tragedy of super wicked problems: constraining our future selves to ameliorate global climate change
TL;DR: It is argued that an “applied forward reasoning” approach is better suited for social scientists seeking to address climate change, which is characterized as a “super wicked” problem comprising four key features: time is running out, those who cause the problem also seek to provide a solution, the central authority needed to address it is weak or non-existent, and policy responses discount the future irrationally.
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What about the politics? Sustainable development, transition management, and long term energy transitions
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the contribution that transition management can make to such processes, emphasize the irreducibly political character of governance for sustainable development, and suggest that the long-term transformation of energy systems will prove to be a messy, conflictual, and highly disjointed process.
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Reconceptualising the 'policy mix' for innovation
TL;DR: The authors argue that the emergence of the "policy mix" concept into common use in the field of innovation policy studies provides a window of opportunity to reconsider some basic and often hidden assumptions in order to better deal with a messy and complex, multi-level, mult-actor reality.
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The New Corporate Social Responsibility
TL;DR: The last half decade has witnessed a remarkable resurgence of attention among practitioners and scholars to understand the ability of corporate social responsibility (CSR) to address environmental and social problems as mentioned in this paper.