Assessing Transit-Oriented Development Implementation in Canadian Cities: An Urban Project Approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 469-481 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florence Paulhiac Scherrer
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
Transit Oriented Development ◽  
Local Policy ◽  
Project Approach ◽  
Metropolitan Planning ◽  
Planning Strategies ◽  
Urban Project ◽  
Local Nature ◽  
Incremental Process

This article presents a new theoretical approach for assessing the implementation process of transit-oriented development (TOD). Through a conceptual framework, based on the notion of the urban project as an instrument of public policy, it highlights two distinct processes at work in the implementation of every TOD project: territorialization and differentiation. The first suggests that there are necessarily discrepancies between metropolitan planning strategies and the very local nature of the TOD projects. The second suggests that implementing a TOD project is an incremental process rooted in local policy conditions that must be factored in at every phase of the implementation process.

Besoins Informationnels dans les Démarches Urbaines: Fragmentation, Complexité et Stratégies d’Acteurs

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Smail Khainnar
Keyword(s):  
Information Needs ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Project Approach ◽  
Urban Project

Dans une démarche du projet urbain, la multiplicité d’acteurs, la nature complexe de l’objet urbain, les temporalités générées par la démarche, constituent autant d’éléments qui complexifient le déroulement et l’issue de la démarche. L’objet de cette étude est d’identifier les besoins informationnels qui servent à faire avancer le travail des acteurs impliqués. In an urban project approach, the multiplicity of actors, the complex nature of the urban object, the temporalities generated by this approach, constitute as many elements complexifying the course and the success of this approach. The object of this study is to identify the information needs which are used to enhance the work of the implied actors.

Quaking in their boots? Inaccurate perceptions of seismic hazard and public policy inaction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
MATTHEW MOTTA ◽  
ANDREW ROHRMAN
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Opinion Dynamics ◽  
Earthquake Hazard ◽  
Local Policy ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Economic Productivity ◽  
Major Earthquake ◽  
Political Problem

AbstractFew Americans demand that their local policy-makers take action to address the effects of large earthquakes, even in ‘high-risk’ areas. This poses an important political problem. If policy-makers do not perceive a mandate to prepare for catastrophe, certain areas of the country may be vulnerable to loss of life and economic productivity. Why do Americans not demand more from their policy-makers? We propose a simple answer – many Americans do not accurately appraise the likelihood that they will experience a major earthquake. In a unique survey of West Coast adults, we compared respondents’ perceived likelihood of experiencing a major earthquake to their actual geocoded hazard. We uncover a wide disconnect between actual and perceived earthquake hazard, even in areas where earthquakes are comparatively more common. Critically, and in contrast to previous public policy research, we show that threats in the physical environment can shape policy opinion, but only under certain circumstances. We show that accurate appraisals of hazard significantly increase the likelihood that respondents will support preventative local policy measures. Our results shed new light on the opinion dynamics of public attitudes toward natural disasters and ameliorative policy efforts and highlight the policy importance of communicating earthquake hazard to at-risk constituencies.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hendrik Wagenaar ◽  
Helga Amesberger ◽  
Sietske Altink
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Local Policy ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Prostitution Policy ◽  
Policy Regimes ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Public Policy Analysis

The introduction describes the historical involvement of the state in the regulation of prostitution. It introduces the concept of public policy and its neglect in the academic literature on prostitution. We argue that the literature avoids a systematic discussion of public policy by focusing on a host of other factors that shape prostitution in society, such as large extraneous influences, broad (national) policy regimes, international human rights governance, discourse, broad shifts in governmentality. Instead, it is the concerted actions of national and local policy makers in designing regulation that shape the different manifestations of prostitution: the places where it is practised, the type of prostitution that is prevalent in a society, and the position and rights of sex workers. The chapter describes the three goals of the book: to provide an overview and critique of how prostitution policy has been analysed; to provide a policy analytical approach that both recognizes the particular challenges of the field and applies the concepts and tools of public policy analysis; and to provide suggestions for how policy-makers can move forward in establishing a fairer and more humane policy.

Meet the local policy workers: Implementation of health promotion guidelines in Denmark

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camilla L Wimmelmann ◽  
Signild Vallgårda ◽  
Anja MB Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Guideline Implementation ◽  
Local Policy ◽  
Policy Guideline ◽  
Public Policy Implementation ◽  
Potential Benefits

Reporting on an interview and observation-based study in Danish municipalities, this article deals with local policy workers and takes it's departure in the great variation we observed in implementation of centrally issued health promotion guidelines. We present five types of local policy workers, each of whom we found typified a specific way of reasoning and implementing the guidelines. This typology illustrates the diversity found within a group of local policy workers and helps explain the variability reported in most studies on policy/guideline implementation. On the level of individuals, variation in implementation is often explained by the implementers’ perceptions of need for, and potential benefits of the policy, self-efficacy and skill proficiency. We add ‘professionally related experiences’ as another explanation. We introduce the concepts of translation and hinterland to understand how and why people in the same positions receiving the same set of guidelines implement them differently and suggest that local policy workers’ professionally related experiences affect the frames in which they translate the guidelines and decide upon the strategies of implementation. As such, this article illustrates a residual order of implementation practice: the unruly and elusive part of public policy implementation, ordered only partly by the centrally issued policies.

Social Science, Public Policy, and Amnesty for Chickens

2014 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-10
Author(s):  
Merrill Eisenberg
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Local Policy ◽  
Agriculture Policy ◽  
Policy Development Process ◽  
Pima County ◽  
Applied Social Science

This is a story about efforts to develop local policy in Pima County, Arizona, that supports and encourages urban agriculture in Tucson, Arizona. These efforts have been guided by an applied anthropologist, working in consort with local grassroots citizen groups, and policymakers in local government. This paper describes those efforts and highlights how concepts and methods of applied social science have informed the policy development process and created opportunities for citizens to participate meaningfully in developing urban agriculture policy.

scholarly journals NPO/NGO Education in Public Administration in South Korea

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-191
Author(s):  
Bok Gyo Jeong ◽  
Sung-Ju Kim
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
Policy Formation ◽  
The Public ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Public Policy Implementation ◽  
Implementation Stage

This study examines how NPO/NGO-related themes and theories are incorporated into public administration education in South Korea. By analyzing NPO/NGO-related courses in selected public administration programs, this research breaks down their curricula into major categories from the public administration and policy standpoints. This study found that civil society constitutes the public administration environment on the macro-level, while NPO/NGOs are key actors in the participatory governance and contracting-out on the micro-level. From the public policy standpoint, the advocacy function of NPO/NGOs took the central role in the public policy formation stage, while their service delivery function was highlighted in the public policy implementation stage. South Korean PA education is evaluated to take a top-down-style approach in embracing the roles of NPO/NGOs in the public policy implementation process. This study contributes to strengthening ties between PA education and NPO/NGO education and practices.

scholarly journals MENGUNGKAP ANALISIS DAN EVALUASI KEBIJAKAN TENTANG PENDIDIKAN AGAMA DAN KEAGAMAAN

Conciencia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-111
Author(s):  
Benny Prasetiya
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
Education Standards ◽  
National Education ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
The Impact

The implementation of PP No. 55/2007 is part of government intervention in religious and religious education. every policy stipulated in its implementation certainly raises constructive criticism. Criticism that arises starts from the aspects of laws and regulations, the implementation process and the impact of a policy in the set of approaches used in this research policy research that focuses on researching policy formulation. The content analysis technique in this research is to compare the contents/formulation of PP RI No. 55 of 2007 concerning Islamic religious education with public policy theory. The researcher selects the data source that has relevance to this policy study and concludes the data for conclusions. The results of the research found were the formulation of PP RI No. 55 of 2007 related to public policy objectives that are regulative, deregulation, dynamic or stabilizing. Regulatory aspects provide restrictions and regulate the implementation of Islamic religious education. The deregulation aspect has the purpose of liberating in terms of providing education. The aspects of dynamism as the driving force for national education goals. The purpose of stabilization is intended to make adjustments to the rules so that Islamic educational institutions follow the National Education Standards.

La simplificación administrativa en el Derecho comparado: el ejemplo de Portugal. Elementos exportables para una construcción sistemática del procedimiento administrativo desde la simplificación

2013 ◽  
pp. 349-378
Author(s):  
Manuela MORA RUIZ
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
Administrative Law ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Administrative Procedure ◽  
Basic Institution ◽  
Administrative Simplification ◽  
Simplification Techniques

LABURPENA: Administrazio Zuzenbidea erreformatzeko eta/edo modernizatzeko abian diren prozesuek dauzkaten printzipioen artean, Administrazioa sinplifikatzean datzana funtsezkoa da. Nazioarteko erakundeak Administrazioa sinplifikatzeko tresnak bultzatzen ari dira, eta gure inguruko herrialdeak hainbat modutara ari dira printzipio hori aplikatzen, administrazio-prozeduran zuzenean txertatuta. Lan honetako azterketa Zuzenbide konparatuan oinarritzen da, Portugalen administrazio-sinplifikazioa zer-nola txertatu duten begiratuz. Ikuspegi horretatik, Portugaleko ordenamendu administratiboa erreferente gisa har daiteke, bai administrazioa sinplifikatzeko egiazko politika diseinatzeagatik, bai administrazio-prozeduraren bidez teknikak positibatzeagatik, agerian jarriz erakunde hori oso egokia dela Administrazio Zuzenbidearen funtsezko aldaketak islatzeko. RESUMEN: La simplificación administrativa constituye un principio clave en los procesos de reforma y/o modernización del Derecho Administrativo que se están planteando en la actualidad. Los instrumentos de simplificación administrativa se están impulsando desde organizaciones internacionales, y están siendo acogidos de manera diversa en los países de nuestro entorno, proyectándose directamente sobre el procedimiento administrativo. Este Trabajo pretende un estudio de Derecho Comparado en torno a la incorporación de la simplificación administrativa en Portugal. Desde esta perspectiva, el Ordenamiento administrativo portugués puede considerarse un referente tanto en el diseño de una auténtica política de simplificación administrativa, como en la positivación de sus técnicas a través del procedimiento administrativo, poniendo de manifiesto la idoneidad de esta Institución para reflejar cambios fundamentales del Derecho Administrativo. ABSTRACT: Administrative simplification is one of the keys of the process of modernization of Administrative Law nowadays. The simplification techniques and instruments are taking place in administrative procedure because of the International Organizations’ interest and the resultant implementation process is different from one country to another. Therefore, this Paper aims to present a comparative study of the Portuguese Administrative Law regarding the bases and instruments of administrative simplification, so that Portugal can be considered as a reference in order to design a public policy of simplification and to incorporate its techniques in administrative procedure. From this point of view, we should remark how administrative procedure is a basic institution to reflect the changes of Administrative Law with regard to the principle of administrative simplification.

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