The Problem Solving Capacity Of The Modern State
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Author | : Martin Lodge |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Corporate governance |
ISBN | : 9780191784880 |
This title examines the capacity of contemporary governments to act upon and address the pressing problems of our time. It highlights four basic administrative capacities that matter for governance and considers the way in which states have addressed particular governance challenges.
Author | : Martin Lodge |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0198716362 |
Governance Challenges and Innovations examines the capacity of contemporary governments to act upon and address the pressing problems of our time. It highlights four basic administrative capacities that matter for governance and considers the way in which states have addressed particular governance challenges.
Author | : Xavier De Souza Briggs |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 2008-07-18 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0262262010 |
Case studies from around the world and theoretical discussion show how the capacity to act collectively on local problems can be developed, strengthening democracy while changing social and economic outcomes. Complexity, division, mistrust, and “process paralysis” can thwart leaders and others when they tackle local challenges. In Democracy as Problem Solving, Xavier de Souza Briggs shows how civic capacity—the capacity to create and sustain smart collective action—can be developed and used. In an era of sharp debate over the conditions under which democracy can develop while broadening participation and building community, Briggs argues that understanding and building civic capacity is crucial for strengthening governance and changing the state of the world in the process. More than managing a contest among interest groups or spurring deliberation to reframe issues, democracy can be what the public most desires: a recipe for significant progress on important problems. Briggs examines efforts in six cities, in the United States, Brazil, India, and South Africa, that face the millennial challenges of rapid urban growth, economic restructuring, and investing in the next generation. These challenges demand the engagement of government, business, and nongovernmental sectors. And the keys to progress include the ability to combine learning and bargaining continuously, forge multiple forms of accountability, and find ways to leverage the capacity of the grassroots and what Briggs terms the “grasstops,” regardless of who initiates change or who participates over time. Civic capacity, Briggs shows, can—and must—be developed even in places that lack traditions of cooperative civic action.
Author | : Tanja A. Börzel |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2021-04-08 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1107183693 |
Democratic and consolidated states are taken as the model for effective rule-making and service provision. In contrast, this book argues that good governance is possible even without a functioning state.
Author | : David Levi-Faur |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 828 |
Release | : 2012-03-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0199560536 |
This Oxford Handbook will be the definitive study of governance for years to come. 'Governance' has become one of the most popular terms in contemporary political science; this Handbook explores the full range of meaning and application of the concept and its use in a number of research fields.
Author | : Francis Fukuyama |
Publisher | : Profile Books |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2017-06-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1847653774 |
Weak or failed states - where no government is in control - are the source of many of the world's most serious problems, from poverty, AIDS and drugs to terrorism. What can be done to help? The problem of weak states and the need for state-building has existed for many years, but it has been urgent since September 11 and Afghanistan and Iraq. The formation of proper public institutions, such as an honest police force, uncorrupted courts, functioning schools and medical services and a strong civil service, is fraught with difficulties. We know how to help with resources, people and technology across borders, but state building requires methods that are not easily transported. The ability to create healthy states from nothing has suddenly risen to the top of the world agenda. State building has become a crucial matter of global security. In this hugely important book, Francis Fukuyama explains the concept of state-building and discusses the problems and causes of state weakness and its national and international effects.
Author | : Erika Cudworth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
An accessible introduction to a wide range of theoretical perspectives on the modern state and a comprehensive overview of modern state theory.
Author | : Odus V. Elliott |
Publisher | : OUP Us |
Total Pages | : 682 |
Release | : 2002-02-22 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0195136659 |
The new tools of public action have come to rely heavily on third parties - private businesses, nonprofit organisations, and other levels of government - for their operation. The Tools of Government is a comprehensive guide to the operation of these tools and to the management, accountability, policy, and theoretical issues they pose.
Author | : Committee for the Study of the Future of Public Health |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1988-01-15 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0309581907 |
"The Nation has lost sight of its public health goals and has allowed the system of public health to fall into 'disarray'," from The Future of Public Health. This startling book contains proposals for ensuring that public health service programs are efficient and effective enough to deal not only with the topics of today, but also with those of tomorrow. In addition, the authors make recommendations for core functions in public health assessment, policy development, and service assurances, and identify the level of government--federal, state, and local--at which these functions would best be handled.
Author | : |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2022-03-15 |
Genre | : Political planning |
ISBN | : 0198747004 |
How to Do Public Policy offers a guide to students and practitioners on how to improve problem-solving with policies in a political world. It integrates insights from applied policy analysis and studies of the policy process to develop a framework that conceives policy-making as structured by two spheres of action - the 'engine room' of specialists and experts in government agencies, NGOs, research organizations etc., on the one hand, and the political 'superstructure' of politicians, key public stakeholders and the public, on the other hand. Understanding the different logics of the engine room and the superstructure is key for successful policy-making. The dual structure of policy-making provides a perspective on policy-analysis (interactive policy analysis) and policy-making (actor-centred policy-making) that moves from the focus on individual and specific measures, towards understanding and shaping the relation and interaction between policy interventions, the institutional context and the stakeholders involved or affected. Part I of the book presents the basic analytical concepts needed to understand the policy process and the structures and dynamics involved in it, as well as to understand how and why actors behave the way they do-and how to engage with different types of actors. Part II moves further into the nuts and bolts of policy-making, including policy design, implementation, and evaluation. Part III introduces and explores three key aspects of the capacity to make good policies: engagement with stakeholders, the process of policy coordination in a context of interdependence, and the role of institutions.