Beyond public policy: A public action languages approachPeter KevinSpinkEdward Elgar, 2019, 256 pp., £72.00 (hbk), ISBN: 9781 78811 874 3

2019 ◽  
Vol 97 (4) ◽  
pp. 965-966
Author(s):  
David Abbott
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Action Languages ◽  
Public Action

scholarly journals Uma Epistemologia das Políticas Públicas: elementos para a ação pública

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 354-360
Author(s):  
Iván Flores Godoy
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Politique Publique ◽  
Public Action

  Uma Epistemologia das Políticas Públicas: elementos para a ação pública An Epistemology of Public Policy: elements for public action Una Epistemologia de las Políticas Públicas: elementos para la acción pública Une Épistémologie de la Politique Publique: éléments pour l'action publique   Obra: Políticas Públicas Formulación, implementación y evaluación Autor: André-Noël Roth Deubel Idioma: Espanhol Cidade: Bogotá Editora: Aurora Ano: 2002 14ª edição: 2019 Páginas: 296 ISBN-13: 978-958-9136-15-7

Advice for practical application

2018 ◽  
pp. 259-276
Author(s):  
Peter Knoepfel
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Resource Analysis ◽  
Policy Actors ◽  
Public Action

This chapter provides advice on the practical application of the concepts relating to public action resources presented in the book. It proposes experience-based units for measuring each of the ten resources (and related indicators), a way of identifying the resource portfolios of public policy actors (mainly capable of demonstrating the differences between the resource portfolio at the disposal of each one of the three actors) and a standardized way of documenting resource exchanges. Finally, the chapter locates public action resource analysis within the context of comprehensive policy analysis studies based on a seven-point checklist.

Context: a survey of the literature

2018 ◽  
pp. 51-76
Author(s):  
Peter Knoepfel
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Public Action ◽  
Definition Of

This chapter deals with 19 recent contributions from the literature, which aim to provide a systematic categorization of public policy resources (Meltsner, Clapham, Lapeyronnie, Lacam, Kiun, Davern, Lemieux, Newig, Söderlund, Blin, Sabatier & Weible, Hood & Margetts, Dowding, Vesan & Graziano, Sauer, Imbeau, Compston, Klüver and Dente). It concludes that all of the ten resources dealt with in the current book feature in this literature, that the value of resources is relative, and that the contributions by Dente, Compston, Hude & Margetts are closest to mine while those of Söderland, Davers and Meltsner differ most significantly from it. The chapter insists on the exchangeability, transferability and objectivability of public action resources and rejects the inclusion in the definition of personal, individual characteristics of the actors, to whom such resources belong. Furthermore, it stresses the observation that not only public actors but also civil society actors have public action resources.

Economic Inequality and Public Policy: The Power of Place

2002 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 349-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Todd Swanstrom ◽  
Peter Dreier ◽  
John Mollenkopf
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Equal Opportunity ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Economic Inequality ◽  
Contextual Effects ◽  
American Democracy ◽  
Public Action ◽  
Economic Segregation ◽  
American Society ◽  
Retail Services

In recent decades two broad trends in American society have been well–documented: rising income inequality and rising segregation of economic classes across space in metropolitan areas. The thesis of this article is that rising economic segregation is both a cause of rising economic inequality and amplifies its effects in ways that do not showup in the income statistics. The article synthesizes the evidence on the contextual effects of economic segregation in three areas: 1) jobs and income; 2) public services; and 3) retail services. Economic segregation does not only undermine equal opportunity, it also damages American democracy. Although more research is needed on the effects of economic segregation, the evidence is more than sufficient to call for public action.

scholarly journals The public action languages approach to public affairs

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (70) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Kevin Spink
Keyword(s):  
New Deal ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
The Public ◽  
Action Languages ◽  
Public Action ◽  
Politica Publica

<p><em>Este artigo parte da observação feita por autores envolvidos com diferentes aspectos das ações públicas, uma vez que o Estado não é sinônimo de assuntos públicos.  Do ponto de vista policêntrico, no qual o público ou públicos são atores-chave e independentes, questiona-se o papel central que a política pública supostamente assumiu na articulação da discussão e provisão de bens e serviços públicos. O artigo adota uma perspectiva histórica da emergência da política pública na língua inglesa em diferentes momentos e focaliza três períodos reconhecidos como aqueles nos quais as democracias anglófonas deram passos significativos para a ampliação da agenda de debate dos assuntos públicos: o New Deal de Roosevelt, 1933; o Governo do Partido Trabalhista britânico, 1945, e as administrações Johnson (1963-1968). Em todos esses casos, houve inovações muito práticas no tratamento de questões muito difíceis, mas com muito pouca – se houve – discussão de política pública. Considerando que fala e ação andam juntas, quais outras linguagens sociais (para usar o termo de Bakhtin, 1986) estavam disponíveis? Ao apontar que elas eram muitas, das quais a maior parte continua presente e bastante ativa hoje, o artigo questiona a centralidade e inevitabilidade da política pública e propõe abordar linguagens de ação pública para o estudo dos assuntos públicos. </em></p>

The foundations of public policy analysis2

2018 ◽  
pp. 9-42
Author(s):  
Peter Knoepfel
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Institutional Policies ◽  
Target Groups ◽  
Public Action ◽  
Public Policy Analysis ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Rules Of The Game

This chapter revisits the foundations of public policy analysis as presented in our previous textbook of 2011 (Knoepfel et al., 2011): the definition of public policies (distinction between substantive and institutional policies), the rejected notion of public action, causality models, actor triangles and resources. It adds some new perspectives on the relation between actors (political-administrative actors, target groups and beneficiaries) and their resources. Finally, it brings some clarification to the topic of the institutions, which are considered as the ‘rules of the game’, and introduces a list of possession, behavioural and decisional rules that feature in the constitutional and private law of Switzerland. The majority of these rules can also be found in other democratic political systems.

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