Policy Learning Using SPSA

2018 ◽  
pp. 3-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Ramamurthy ◽  
C. Bauckhage ◽  
R. Sifa ◽  
S. Wrobel
Keyword(s):  
Policy Learning

Evaluating Cross-Country Policy Learning in Public Administration: The Case of Qatar-Singapore Partnership in Regional Training Centre for Public Administration (RTCPA)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Evren Tok ◽  
Duygu Sever
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Policy Transfer ◽  
Policy Learning ◽  
Training Center ◽  
Training Centre ◽  
Cross Country

This study investigates the case of Qatar Singapore Regional Training Center for Public Administration.As a tool for this process of policy transfer, the article further evaluates the case of Singapore- Qatar Asia-Middle East Dialogue (AMED) Regional Training Centre for Public Administration (RTCPA) in Doha, Qatar, as a mechanism to foster this policy transferThe study suggests that this evaluation would be a fruitful example in revealing the strengths and weakness of such initiatives and can offer a scheme for insights regarding effective tools of policy learning.

Logics for Action and Conventional Wisdom

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alastair Stark
Keyword(s):  
Conventional Wisdom ◽  
Policy Learning ◽  
Learning Function

This chapter examines the logics for action that inquiry actors bring into a lesson-learning episode. Logics for action is a term that describes the knowledge-related preferences that actors use in inquiries to make decisions. Analysis of the logics in these cases leads to three specific arguments. First, that political logics for action do not compromise inquiries in the ways which inquiry research currently suggests. Second, that public-managerial logics are essential to inquiry success in terms of policy learning. Finally, that legal-judicial logics need not necessarily lead to blaming and adversarial proceedings, which derail the lesson-learning function. These three arguments once again suggest that we need to rethink much of the conventional wisdom surrounding inquiries.

Off-policy Learning in Two-stage Recommender Systems

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiaqi Ma ◽  
Zhe Zhao ◽  
Xinyang Yi ◽  
Ji Yang ◽  
Minmin Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Recommender Systems ◽  
Policy Learning ◽  
Two Stage

scholarly journals How do Public Officials Learn About Policy? A Field Experiment on Policy Diffusion

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Miguel M. Pereira
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Interest Group ◽  
Policy Diffusion ◽  
The United States ◽  
Causal Link ◽  
Policy Learning ◽  
Learning Context ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Non Profit

Abstract Prior research suggests that partisanship can influence how legislators learn from each other. However, same-party governments are also more likely to share similar issues, ideological preferences and constituency demands. Establishing a causal link between partisanship and policy learning is difficult. In collaboration with a non-profit organization, this study isolates the role of partisanship in a real policy learning context. As part of a campaign promoting a new policy among local representatives in the United States, the study randomized whether the initiative was endorsed by co-partisans, out-partisans or both parties. The results show that representatives are systematically more interested in the same policy when it is endorsed by co-partisans. Bipartisan initiatives also attract less interest than co-partisan policies, and no more interest than out-partisan policies, even in more competitive districts. Together, the results suggest that ideological considerations cannot fully explain partisan-based learning. The study contributes to scholarship on policy diffusion, legislative signaling and interest group access.

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