Rethinking the commissioning of consultants for enhancing government policy capacity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Althaus ◽  
Lisa Carson ◽  
Ken Smith
Keyword(s):  
Government Policy ◽  
Policy Capacity

The policy capacity of political parties in Canada

2018 ◽  
pp. 257-274
Author(s):  
Greg Flynn ◽  
Marguerite Marlin
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Limited Impact ◽  
Policy Capacity ◽  
Policy Choices ◽  
Party Members

Political parties and their members are often viewed as having limited impact on government policy choices. However, prior research shows that both sets of actors devote considerably more time and resources to policy-related activities than this view would suggest. We examine the policy capacity of parties and their members to influence policy-making in Canada over the course of the last decade. We focus on the ability of party members to have their policy wishes included in election campaign manifestos and the extent to which the 2008 and 2011 federal Conservative governments were able to fulfill their campaign commitments in a highly challenging policy capacity environment. Consistent with prior studies on previous Conservative and Liberal governments, this examination demonstrates that while governments face a number of influences on their policy choices, the policy wishes of party members and the election campaign policy commitments of parties have a significant influence.

scholarly journals Europeanisation of policy-making in Turkey and its limits1

2018 ◽  
pp. 143-162
Author(s):  
H. Tolga Bölükbaşı ◽  
Ebru Ertugal ◽  
Saime Özçürümez
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Transformative Power ◽  
Policy Capacity ◽  
Policy Structure ◽  
Key Policy ◽  
Turkish State ◽  
The Impact

This chapter discusses the impact of the European Union on macroeconomic, regional development and immigration policies and governance in Turkey during the 2000s. It also explores the extent to which these changes represent instances of ‘Europeanization’. Following the ‘policy structure approach’, it traces changes in principles, objectives, procedures and instruments of these key policy sectors. It shows that these changes resulted in stronger government policy commitment reflected in increased ‘policy intensity’ and ‘policy density’. All of these changes led to an ever-larger ‘policy capacity’ of the Turkish state. The chapter concludes that the ‘transformative power’ of the EU in shaping policy structures, expanding both the density and intensity of these policies and enhancing the policy capacity is overwhelmingly large in Turkey.

The ‘Modernisation’ of Scotland and its Impact on Glasgow, 1955–1979: ‘Unwanted Side Effects’ and Vulnerabilities

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 294-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chik Collins ◽  
Ian Levitt
Keyword(s):  
Side Effects ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Regional Policy ◽  
Excess Mortality ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Uk Government ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Impact

This article reports findings of research into the far-reaching plan to ‘modernise’ the Scottish economy, which emerged from the mid-late 1950s and was formally adopted by government in the early 1960s. It shows the growing awareness amongst policy-makers from the mid-1960s as to the profoundly deleterious effects the implementation of the plan was having on Glasgow. By 1971 these effects were understood to be substantial with likely severe consequences for the future. Nonetheless, there was no proportionate adjustment to the regional policy which was creating these understood ‘unwanted’ outcomes, even when such was proposed by the Secretary of State for Scotland. After presenting these findings, the paper offers some consideration as to their relevance to the task of accounting for Glasgow's ‘excess mortality’. It is suggested that regional policy can be seen to have contributed to the accumulation of ‘vulnerabilities’, particularly in Glasgow but also more widely in Scotland, during the 1960s and 1970s, and that the impact of the post-1979 UK government policy agenda on these vulnerabilities is likely to have been salient in the increase in ‘excess mortality’ evident in subsequent years.

Reasons for the Onset of the Uniat Clergy’s Movement Towards Orthodoxy in the Russian Empire in the Beginning of the 19th Century

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 293-317
Author(s):  
Protopriest Alexander Romanchuk
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
Latin Church ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
Church Service ◽  
The 19Th Century

The article studies the system of pre-conditions that caused the onset of the uniat clergy’s movement towards Orthodoxy in the Russian Empire in the beginning of the 19th century. The author comes to the conclusion that the tendency of the uniat clergy going back to Orthodoxy was the result of certain historic conditions, such as: 1) constant changes in the government policy during the reign of Emperor Pavel I and Emperor Alexander I; 2) increasing latinization of the uniat church service after 1797 and Latin proselytism that were the result of the distrust of the uniats on the part of Roman curia and representatives of Polish Catholic Church of Latin church service; 3) ecclesiastical contradictions made at the Brest Church Union conclusion; 4) division of the uniat clergy into discordant groups and the increase of their opposition to each other on the issue of latinization in the first decades of the 19th century. The combination of those conditions was a unique phenomenon that never repeated itself anywhere.

Government Policy and Ownership of Equity Securities

CFA Digest ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathias Moersch
Keyword(s):  
Government Policy ◽  
Equity Securities
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