Jeffrey L. Pressman and Aaron B. Wildavsky,

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai Wegrich
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Public Policy Research ◽  
Implementation Studies ◽  
Central Argument ◽  
Aaron Wildavsky ◽  
Emergent Networks

This chapter comments onImplementation, a book by Jeffrey L. Pressman and Aaron Wildavsky. It traces its roots to the Economic Development Agency’s Oakland project, designed to promote economic development in cities by increasing employment opportunities for minorities. It considers Pressman and Wildavsky’s account of why the Oakland program failed, as well as their central argument with regards to the role of politics and policy-making in implementation. It discusses the decline of implementation studies as the dominating subfield of public policy research and highlights some key concerns raised by Pressman and Wildavsky that continue to be influential. The chapter concludes by looking at debates about the merits of non-hierarchical coordination, informal interaction, and emergent networks.

Reconsidering institutions

2020 ◽  
pp. 33-54
Author(s):  
Kate Crowley ◽  
Jenny Stewart ◽  
Adrian Kay ◽  
Brian W. Head
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Institutional Theory ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
New Institutionalism ◽  
Policy Network ◽  
Complex Landscape ◽  
Emergent Networks ◽  
Over Time

Although institutions are central to the study of public policy, the focus upon them has shifted over time. This chapter is concerned with the role of institutions in problem solving and the utility of an evolving institutional theory that has significantly fragmented. It argues that the rise of new institutionalism in particular is symptomatic of the growing complexity in problems and policy making. We review the complex landscape of institutional theory, we reconsider institutions in the context of emergent networks and systems in the governance era, and we reflect upon institutions and the notion of policy shaping in contemporary times. We find that network institutionalism, which draws upon policy network and community approaches, has a particular utility for depicting and explaining complex policy.

Book Reviews

2012 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 204-207
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
London School ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Research Associate ◽  
Making Choices ◽  
History Of ◽  
London School Of Economics

Georg von Krogh of ETH Zurich reviews “The Comingled Code: Open Source and Economic Development” by Josh Lerner and Mark Schankerman. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins: Explores the role of open source software in economic development. Discusses software and growth; the history of open source; the supply side--comingling open source and proprietary software; the demand side--assessing trade-offs and making choices; assessing government policies toward software; and the takeaways. Lerner is Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School. Schankerman is Professor of Economics and Research Associate with the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics and Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research. Glossary; index.

TRANSFORMATION OF CONCEPT "COMPETITION" IN SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT IN THE CONTEXT OF PUBLIC DEVELOPMENT

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-31
Author(s):  
O. Zubchyk
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Scientific Thought ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Public Policy Research ◽  
Different Levels

The purpose of the article is to reveal the content of the transformation of the concept of "competition", which synthesizes and reflects the objective reality, showing heuristic potential in the context of public policy research and public administration. The author showed that the evolution of conceptual views on competition is evidenced by the transformation of the concept of "competition" and related concepts (subject, object of competition, economic relations, and state economic policy). The influence of various factors on the conceptualization of experience at different levels (personal, state-public relations, interstate) is substantiated. The author considered the transformation of the concept of "competition" in scientific thought in the context of social development from the era of antiquity to our day. The author proposed a methodology that allows deeper analysis of the role of subjects of socio-political and statemanagement relations in the context of the study of state policy and public administration. The research on the transformation of the concept of "competition" in the context of social development in the most common and influential theories provides additional opportunities for analyzing the role of socio-political and state-managerial relations in the context of studying public policy as a mechanism of public administration .

Civic Boosterism in the Politics of Local Economic Development—‘Institutional Positions’; and ‘Strategic Orientations’ in the Consumption of Hallmark Events

1997 ◽  
Vol 29 (11) ◽  
pp. 1975-1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Boyle
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Local Economic Development ◽  
European City ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
Problematic Relationship ◽  
Strategic Orientations ◽  
Cultural Festivals ◽  
Central Argument

The author sets out to interrogate the manner in which cultural festivals have been theorised in the context of accounts of the role of civic boosterism—or what he terms ‘Urban Propaganda Projects' (UPPs)—in the politics of local economic development. Attention is focused primarily upon how authors account for the way in which ‘locals' respond to boosterism. Based upon the thesis advanced by the Ohio School, and a review of later work, the central argument pursued is that work to date has operated with remarkably impoverished conceptions of the antecedent material and cultural contexts within which hallmark events are being organised. In regard to their conception of the ‘audience’ for UPPs, authors have worked with the unacknowledged assumption that locals consume and relate to events largely in terms of the extent to which they buy into, resist (culturally or economically), or become disoriented, by the versions of local identity which are being promoted. Even when critical or Marxist in nature, this form of analysis limits enquiry to the terms of reference of the boosterist agenda itself. The author argues that more imaginative conceptual frameworks might orient analysts to look for other modes of consumption—modes which indeed might refuse to recognise the language of boosterism (for good or bad) and which might require a different entry point to analysis. Using a case study of Glasgow's role as European City of Culture 1990, the author develops the contours of one such framework, with the aid of key concepts of institutional positions and strategic orientations. Although amenable to appropriation within existing critical or Marxist accounts, these concepts are not the products of that framework and thus generate, at the very least, a problematic relationship with it. It is concluded that accounts of local reactions to cultural festivals in particular, and to civic boosterism in general, must escape the epistemological straightjacket that the Marxist/boosterist agenda presents.

The private sector in Al-Muthanna governorate and its role in the Economic Development process for the period 2009 – 2018

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 154-164
Author(s):  
Ameen Fahad Chayed ◽  
Jawaher Dahham Abdullah ◽  
Hussein kamil Ared
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Positive Change ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Investment Opportunities ◽  
Effective Role ◽  
Economic Reality ◽  
The Unemployed

Economic development is a major means of promoting economic reality, activating economic movement in Muthanna governorate, changing the living reality of the population and creating necessary development in various fields through the effective role of the private sector in this regard. The research aims to demonstrate the reality of economic development in Al-Muthanna governorate, its importance, the extent of the private sector’s contribution to it, identifying the most important challenges and obstacles to promote economic development, and attempting to find solutions to support the private sector and achieve economic development through analyzing data for some economic indicators. The research has reached a set of conclusions that confirm that the governorate contains great and varied potentials, and the private sector in recent years has contributed to promoting economic development in Al-Muthanna Governorate, even if by a small percentage, by contributing to GDP, providing employment opportunities for the unemployed and establishing the necessary industries needed by the governorate. Further support for the private sector should be done, and the task of investors should be facilitated in legal, administrative and environmental terms, and the existing potential and investment opportunities should be used to advance the economic reality of conservation and to bring a positive change.

Strategies can overcome irrational UK policy-making

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Comprehensive Account ◽  
Public Pressure ◽  
Uk Government ◽  
The Uk

Significance The report, entitled 'Missing Evidence', reveals that despite spending 2.5 billion pounds (3.6 billion dollars) on policy research each year, the UK government maintains no comprehensive account of how many studies have been commissioned or if and when they have been published. It says this is true for the vast majority of government departments, raising questions about the role of evidence in policy-making. Impacts External expertise is becoming increasingly important because of the growing complexity of policy-making. The lack of transparency could facilitate 'burying' politically inconvenient results. Increasing public pressure could eventually lead to clearer and more transparent procedures.

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