The Role of Ideas, Interests and Institutions in Policy-MakingMonica Bucurenciu
What policy relevant tasks do agencies perform, to what extent are they involved in policy-making, and what factors influence the quality and quantity of their participation? This introductory article gives an overview of key concepts such as "public agencies" and "policy autonomy" and the ...
However, ineffective formal rules can create different outcomes; particularly, in the presence of strong informal institutions. In such a case, formal rules and procedures are not enforced systematically, that is, enabling actors who are involved in the policy process to ignore or violate them, ...
The research describes the development of the House of Commons as a decision-making unit in the 1970s, compares its record during the 1970s to the workings of the Commons over preceding decades, and examines various factors that help explain why the behavior of the House and its members ...
International Financial Institutions (IFIs), for instance, are being asked to help address the economic dimensions of fragility and conflict. However, there is little consensus about whether they are indeed helping. Divergent responses are often offered wherein the IFIs argue that they are assisting...
Increasing role of NGOs in policy making 来自 掌桥科研 喜欢 0 阅读量: 2 作者: CW Group 摘要: The recent announcement by the Minister for Food and Civil Supplies that it would investigate the issue of contamination of bottled water with pesticides highights the increasingly important role ...
Role of Policy and Institutions in Local Adaptation to Climate Change Case studies on responses to too much and too little water in the Hindu Kush Himalayas The research question that the study addresses is: How do political processes hinder or promote the adoption of sustainable and equitable ada...
This chapter establishes the fact that the Council, in effect, developed and maintained a particular ‘line’ in American foreign affairs, provides an introduction to the nature of the organisation’s functions, examines its principal mechanism for...
Research into the European Union (EU) increasingly focuses on the policy-making processes which take place within the EU, as distinct from trying to explain or predict the broad phenomenon of European integration. This thesis adopts a similar focus on EU policy-making. Policy-making in the EU ...
achieve a consensus about the conflicting cognitive claims; their ability to formulate the results such that they are compatible with the expectations and structural requirements of the relevant political body; and whether their decisions have a good chance of legitimising political decisions in society...