Log in

Relevant bibliographies by topics / Developmental policy making / Journal articles

To see the other types of publications on this topic, follow the link: Developmental policy making.

Journal articles on the topic 'Developmental policy making'

Author: Grafiati

Published: 4 June 2021

Last updated: 19 February 2022

Create a spot-on reference in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and other styles

Select a source type:

Consult the top 50 journal articles for your research on the topic 'Developmental policy making.'

Next to every source in the list of references, there is an 'Add to bibliography' button. Press on it, and we will generate automatically the bibliographic reference to the chosen work in the citation style you need: APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago, Vancouver, etc.

You can also download the full text of the academic publication as pdf and read online its abstract whenever available in the metadata.

Browse journal articles on a wide variety of disciplines and organise your bibliography correctly.

1

Burtt, Shelley. "DISABILITY POLICY: ARE WE MAKING PROGRESS?" Social Philosophy and Policy 34, no. 2 (2017): 259–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0265052517000292.

Full text

Abstract:

Abstract:This essay criticizes recent trends in disability policy as restrictive of individual liberty and informed by too narrow a definition of what constitutes human flourishing. I defend the value of intentional community settings as one legitimate residential option for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Recent federal regulations (HCBS Final Rule) define intentional communities or disability-specific housing as presumptively institutional in nature, misunderstanding the positive, noninstitutional features of intentional, integrated communities created by and for people with developmental disabilities. In addition, current disability policy, despite its stated concern for the autonomy of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, limits individual liberty by strictly defining the types of settings eligible for Medicaid waiver funding, expressly excluding agricultural communities, disability-specific residential settings, and intentional communities. A robust commitment to the autonomy of people receiving Medicaid waiver services would allow them to choose to direct their program dollars, recognizing that some individuals may choose a life in intentional community or with others facing similar challenges to themselves over an illusory “integration” into a wider society that remains too often unwelcoming and difficult to navigate.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

2

Marshall, Catherine, Douglas Mitchell, and Frederick Wirt. "Influence, power, and policy making." Peabody Journal of Education 62, no. 4 (June 1985): 61–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01619568509538492.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

3

Petersen, Anne C. "Conducting policy-relevant developmental psychopathology research." International Journal of Behavioral Development 30, no. 1 (January 2006): 39–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0165025406061242.

Full text

Abstract:

Policy, defined broadly to include public policy as well as institutional or organizational policy, is useful for sustaining change in human development and its contexts and systems. The role for developmental psychopathology research in policy analysis and policy making is discussed. To assure that developmental psychopathology research is useful for policy (or practice) requires rigorous strategic thinking, commonly called “systems thinking”. Systems thinking is described and its usefulness tested with a specific example of human development change - that of delinquency career crime prevention. Policy implications are then drawn from the example and generalized to broader human developmental change.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

4

Cressman, Celine, Fiona A. Miller, Astrid Guttmann, John Cairney, and Robin Z. Hayeems. "Policy Rogue or Policy Entrepreneur? The Forms and Impacts of “Joined-Up Governance” for Child Health." Children 8, no. 3 (March 13, 2021): 221. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children8030221.

Full text

Abstract:

Joined-up governance (JUG) approaches have gained attention as mechanisms for tackling wicked policy problems, particularly in intersectoral areas such as child health, where multiple ministries that deliver health and social services must collaborate if they are to be effective. Growing attention to the need to invest in early childhood to improve health and developmental trajectories, including through developmental screening, illustrate the challenges of JUG for child health. Using a comparative case study design comprised of the qualitative analysis of documents and key informant interviews, this work sought to explain how and why visible differences in policy choices have been made across two Canadian jurisdictions (Ontario and Manitoba). Specifically, we sought to understand two dimensions of governance (structure and process) alongside an illustrative example—the case of developmental screening, including how insiders viewed the impacts of governance arrangements in this instance. The two jurisdictions shared a commitment to evidence-based policy making and a similar vision of JUG for child health. Despite this, we found divergence in both governance arrangements and outcomes for developmental screening. In Manitoba, collaboration was prioritized, interests were aligned in a structured decision-making process, evidence and evaluation capacity were inherent to agenda setting, and implementation was considered up front. In Ontario, interests were not aligned and instead decision making operated in an opaque and siloed manner, with little consideration of implementation issues. In these contexts, Ontario pursued developmental screening, whereas Manitoba did not. While both jurisdictions aimed at JUG, only Manitoba developed a coordinated JUG system, whereas Ontario operated as a non-system. As a result, Manitoba’s governance system had the capacity to stop ‘rogue’ action, prioritizing investments in accordance with authorized evidence. In contrast, in the absence of a formal system in Ontario, policy ‘entrepreneurs’ were able to seize a window of opportunity to invest in child health.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

5

Bisson, Ann M. "PARENTS AT POLICY-MAKING TABLES." Infants & Young Children 10, no. 1 (July 1997): vi—viii. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00001163-199707000-00002.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

6

Nordhaug, Kristen. "Institutional Change and Policy Reform in Taiwan: The Making of a Developmental State." Pacific Focus 12, no. 1 (February 13, 2008): 25–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1976-5118.1997.tb00003.x.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

7

Jacob, Chandni Maria, and Mark Hanson. "Implications of the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease concept for policy-making." Current Opinion in Endocrine and Metabolic Research 13 (August 2020): 20–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.coemr.2020.08.001.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

8

Sebola, Mokoko Piet. "Public Participation in South Africa’s Policy Decision-Making Process: The Mass and the Elite Choices." Central European Public Administration Review 14, no. 1 (March 31, 2016): 55–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.17573/ipar.2016.1.03.

Full text

Abstract:

Public participation in policy-making dominates most Development, Political Science and Public Administration academic discourses. The issue of concern is the extent to which governments are able to create structures that allow for public participation of citizens in matters affecting their political and developmental concerns. The success of any government administration is, therefore, measured on the basis of how the citizens participate and contribute to the process of deciding their own political and developmental direction. It is argued that the public participation approach that considers the interests, contributions and needs of citizens in policy decision-making processes is difficult in practice. This article investigates the processes of public participation in public policy-making in South Africa with respect to the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act 92 of 1996, the Abolition of Capital Punishment policy and the Civil Union Act 17 of 2006. This is done with a view to determine if public participation in policy decision-making is a reflection of the choices of the elite or the masses.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

9

Turgeon, Stéphanie, Kelsey Kendellen, Sara Kramers, Scott Rathwell, and Martin Camiré. "Making High School Sport Impactful." Kinesiology Review 8, no. 3 (August 1, 2019): 188–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/kr.2019-0015.

Full text

Abstract:

The practice of high school sport is, in large part, justified based on the premise that participation exposes student-athletes to an array of situations that, when experienced positively, allow them to learn and refine the life skills necessary to become active, thriving, and contributing members of society. The purpose of this paper is to examine how we can maximize the developmental potential of high school sport and make it impactful. Extant literature suggests that high school sport participation exposes student-athletes to a variety of experiences that can positively and negatively influence their personal development, with coaches playing a particularly influential role in this developmental process. However, within this body of evidence, issues of research quality have been raised, limiting the inferences that can be drawn. Future research directions are presented that address methodological limitations. Furthermore, in efforts to (re)consider the desired impact of high school sport, a critical discussion with policy and practical implications is offered.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

10

Johnson, Kelley, Gerard Minogue, and Rob Hopklins. "Inclusive Research: Making a Difference to Policy and Legislation." Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities 27, no. 1 (November 21, 2013): 76–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jar.12085.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

11

Berkowitz, Carol D. "The Need for a Developmental Approach to Adolescent Decision-Making." American Journal of Bioethics 5, no. 5 (September 2005): 77–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15265160500246350.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

12

Saito, Hiro. "The Developmental State and Public Participation: The Case of Energy Policy-making in Post–Fukushima Japan." Science, Technology, & Human Values 46, no. 1 (February 11, 2020): 139–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0162243920905000.

Full text

Abstract:

After the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, the Japanese government tried to democratize energy policy-making by introducing public participation. Over the course of its implementation, however, public participation came to be subordinated to expert committees as the primary mechanism of policy rationalization. The expert committees not only neutralized the results of public participation but also discounted the necessity of public participation itself. This trajectory of public participation, from its historic introduction to eventual collapse, can be fully explained only in reference to complex interactions between the macroinstitutions and microsituations of Japanese policy-making at the time of the nuclear disaster: the macroinstitutional reassembling of the developmental state to reallocate more power from the bureaucracy to the cabinet office and the civil society vis-à-vis the microsituational, shifting power dynamics involving political parties, citizens and NGOs, businesses and labor unions, and other relevant actors. This case study thus helps advance the growing science and technology studies research on how the macro and microparameters of policy-making, ranging from the durable institutions of nation-states to situationally specific political struggles, combine to shape the designs, implementations, and policy influences of public participation at particular places and times as well as in particular policy domains.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

13

Gallagher, James, and Robin Rooney. "Policy Options for Early Childhood: A Model for Decision Making." Early Education & Development 10, no. 1 (January 1999): 69–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15566935eed1001_5.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

14

Arocena, Rodrigo, Bo Göransson, and Judith Sutz. "Towards making research evaluation more compatible with developmental goals." Science and Public Policy 46, no. 2 (August 3, 2018): 210–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scy051.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

15

Fischhoff, Baruch, and Stephen B. Broomell. "Judgment and Decision Making." Annual Review of Psychology 71, no. 1 (January 4, 2020): 331–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-010419-050747.

Full text

Abstract:

The science of judgment and decision making involves three interrelated forms of research: analysis of the decisions people face, description of their natural responses, and interventions meant to help them do better. After briefly introducing the field's intellectual foundations, we review recent basic research into the three core elements of decision making: judgment, or how people predict the outcomes that will follow possible choices; preference, or how people weigh those outcomes; and choice, or how people combine judgments and preferences to reach a decision. We then review research into two potential sources of behavioral heterogeneity: individual differences in decision-making competence and developmental changes across the life span. Next, we illustrate applications intended to improve individual and organizational decision making in health, public policy, intelligence analysis, and risk management. We emphasize the potential value of coupling analytical and behavioral research and having basic and applied research inform one another.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

16

Heon Joo Jung and 지명근. "The Korean Developmental State and Bureaucratic Autonomy: External, Internal Autonomy, and Centralization of Policy-making." Journal of Social Science 43, no. 2 (August 2017): 75–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.15820/khjss.2017.43.2.004.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

17

Barua, Taz (Tonmoy). "The Look East Policy/Act East Policy-driven Development Model in Northeast India." Jadavpur Journal of International Relations 24, no. 1 (March 12, 2020): 101–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0973598420908844.

Full text

Abstract:

Under the Look East Policy (LEP)/Act East Policy (AEP), connectivity constructions, development of transport routes, and related industrial and trade infrastructures have sought to rescue the Indian North Eastern Region from the trap of a security paradox that was said to have limited availability of developmental opportunities in Northeast India. Adoption of the LEP came in the foreground of economic reforms in India in the early 1990s. The LEP identified Northeast India as throughway for trade expansion and joint economic growth in India–Southeast Asia region. For facilitating the objectives of expansion and growth, the LEP/AEP has sought to build a network of infrastructure for the sake of connectivity in the region. Due to this focus on infrastructure constructions, the LEP/AEP has advanced an economic development model that prioritizes creating physical infrastructures over social development. This article looks at the chartering of this development model and the contestations it faces from people in the region. For different social groups, the LEP/AEP has come to be seen as a developmental imposition that risks making the Northeast region a mere regional trade and logistics transit hub

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

18

Wilson, D. "Book Review: Making People Behave: Anti-Social Behaviour, Politics and Policy." Youth Justice 6, no. 2 (August 1, 2006): 161–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1473225406065565.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

19

Smith, Thomas, and David Baker. "Worldwide Growth and Institutionalization of Statistical Indicators for Education Policy-Making." Peabody Journal of Education 76, no. 3 (January 1, 2001): 141–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15327930pje763&4_9.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

20

Bown, Kathryn, Jennifer Sumsion, and Frances Press. "Influences on Politicians' Decision Making for Early Childhood Education and Care Policy: What Do We Know? What Don't We Know?" Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood 10, no. 3 (January 1, 2009): 194–217. http://dx.doi.org/10.2304/ciec.2009.10.3.194.

Full text

Abstract:

Politicians play a key role in determining policy content and outcomes for early childhood education and care (ECEC). As a result, the quality of formal ECEC provisions for children rests considerably on the policy decisions of politicians. Despite direct and indirect effects of politicians' policy decisions for the ECEC field, few studies explore influences on politicians' policy decisions, and fewer still pertain to ECEC. In light of the significant gap in the research investigating how and why politicians make the decisions that they do, the authors present a case for a research agenda to investigate politicians' policy decision-making processes in ECEC. A review of the literature pertaining to influences on political decision making reveals some possible influences on politicians' decision making generally, but not for ECEC policy specifically. Using the policy sphere of ECEC to illustrate the complexities of social policy development and implementation in a democratic political system, the authors put forward a conceptualisation of policy that generates a wide range of questions to inform the development of a research agenda. They conclude with a discussion of the possible implications that a research agenda investigating politicians' policy decisions in ECEC might have for the early childhood field.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

21

Lyngstad, Rolv. "Reconsidering Rationales for Local Self-Government - Impacts of Contemporary Changes in Local Decision-Making." Lex localis - Journal of Local Self-Government 8, no. 1 (January 23, 2010): 93–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.4335/8.1.93-113(2010).

Full text

Abstract:

This paper discusses two contemporary trends in local decision-making. Firstly, there seems to be more centralised decision-making today than before in important policy fields such as welfare policy. Secondly, informal governance processes outside formal government structures open up for a substantial influence from non-elected political actors. The paper asserts that there is a connection between the trends, and argues that the centralisation tendencies in welfare issues might affect and encourage governance processes in other local policy arenas. These policy fields are mainly within the so-called ‘developmental policies’ that often facilitate more networking and partnership activities in ‘grey areas’ between the public, private and civil sectors in collective problem solving. Accordingly, more attention should be given to policy fields where governance networks operate, and the implications for revitalising democratic political participation should be studied. The paper concludes that the well-established rationales for local self-government and local democracy need to be reconsidered by taking into account these new decision-making structures.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

22

Wilfond, B., and L. F. Ross. "From Genetics to Genomics: Ethics, Policy, and Parental Decision-making." Journal of Pediatric Psychology 34, no. 6 (July 22, 2008): 639–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jpepsy/jsn075.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

23

Fergusson, R. "Making Sense of the Melting Pot: Multiple Discourses in Youth Justice Policy." Youth Justice 7, no. 3 (December 1, 2007): 179–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1473225407082509.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

24

Kjellström, Sofia, and Ann-Christine Andersson. "Applying adult development theories to improvement science." International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance 30, no. 7 (August 14, 2017): 617–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijhcqa-09-2016-0124.

Full text

Abstract:

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to address how adult development (AD) theories can contribute to quality improvement (QI). Design/methodology/approach A theoretical analysis and discussion on how personal development empirical findings can relate to QI and Deming’s four improvement knowledge domains. Findings AD research shows that professionals have qualitatively diverse ways of meaning-making and ways to approach possibilities in improvement efforts. Therefore, professionals with more complex meaning-making capacities are needed to create successful transformational changes and learning, with the recognition that system knowledge is a developmental capacity. Practical implications In QI and improvement science there is an assumption that professionals have the skills and competence needed for improvement efforts, but AD theories show that this is not always the case, which suggests a need for facilitating improvement initiatives, so that everyone can contribute based on their capacity. Originality/value This study illustrates that some competences in QI efforts are a developmental challenge to professionals, and should be considered in practice and research.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

25

Ebbeck, Marjory. "Preparing early childhood personnel to be pro‐active, policy‐making professionals." Early Child Development and Care 58, no. 1 (January 1990): 87–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0300443900580111.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

26

Shogren, Karrie A., Michael L. Wehmeyer, Hatice Uyanik, and Megan Heidrich. "Development of the Supported Decision Making Inventory System." Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities 55, no. 6 (December 1, 2017): 432–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1352/1934-9556-55.6.432.

Full text

Abstract:

Abstract Supported decision making has received increased attention as an alternative to guardianship and a means to enable people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to exercise their right to legal capacity. Assessments are needed that can used by people with disabilities and their systems of supports to identify and plan for needed supports to enable decision making. This article describes the steps taken to develop such an assessment tool, the Supported Decision Making Inventory System (SDMIS), and initial feedback received from self-advocates with intellectual disability. The three sections of the SDMIS (Supported Decision Making Personal Factors Inventory, Supported Decision Making Environmental Demands Inventory, and Decision Making Autonomy Inventory) are described and implications for future research, policy, and practice are discussed.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

27

Lee, Jack Jin Gary. "Why developmental states accept guest workers: bureaucratic policy-making and the politics of labour migration in Singapore." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 45, no. 13 (April 18, 2018): 2508–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369183x.2018.1463845.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

28

Mazzoni, Tim L. "State policy making and public school choice in Minnesota, from confrontation to compromise." Peabody Journal of Education 63, no. 4 (June 1986): 45–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01619568609538530.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

29

Lourenço, Rui Pedro, and João Paulo Costa. "Incorporating citizens' views in local policy decision making processes." Decision Support Systems 43, no. 4 (August 2007): 1499–511. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2006.06.004.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

30

Al Abri, Khalaf, Badriya Al-Haadi, Mohammed Lashin, and Nisreen Salah El-Din. "The Reality of the Practices of Parliamentary Councils in the Educational Policy Making in Sultanate of Oman (From The Viewpoint of Oman’s Council Members)." Journal of Arts and Social Sciences [JASS] 10, no. 3 (December 31, 2019): 83. http://dx.doi.org/10.24200/jass.vol10iss3pp83-98.

Full text

Abstract:

This study aimed to identify the reality of the practices of the Parliamentary Councils in making educational policy in the Sultanate of Oman from the point of view of the members of the Council of State and the Shura Council. It also focused on the mechanisms of parliamentary participation in educational policymaking, ending up with suggesting a number of proposals for the development of such practices. The sample of the study consisted of 42 members of the Oman Council. The descriptive approach was used as it suits the objectives and the nature of the study. To achieve the objectives of the study, a questionnaire was used, consisting of 68 items divided into three focuses of the study (practice, practice mechanisms and developmental proposals). The study found that there is a need for importance developing the practices of the Parliamentary Councils in making education policy in the Sultanate of Oman. It also reached to the conclusion that the members of the two Councils should be granted more powers to increase their contributions to education policy-making. The study recommended involving other society groups in making educational policy side by side with the role played by the Oman Council.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

31

Abd Elkhalek, Abeer Mohamed Ali. "An Assessment of the Applicability of Behavioral Economics’ Tools to Policy Making Process Considering Sustainable Development Goals." International Journal of Economics and Finance 12, no. 10 (September 18, 2020): 57. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijef.v12n10p57.

Full text

Abstract:

Achieving sustainable development goals in a very dynamic and complicated world requires innovated solutions. As people are in the heart of the developmental process, understanding what motivates people and what drives their behaviors is a must for designing policies targeting the achievement of developmental goals. This paper aims to assess how the behavioral economics’ tools may be applied to directing people’s behaviors toward more sustainable activities and then contributing to achieve sustainable development goals. Using deductive qualitative approach, and a comparative analysis, the study explores and discusses to what extent insights and techniques from behavioral economics may affect and change policy making process and then public policies' outcomes specifically in the context of sustainable development disciplines. The results showed a vital role of behavioral economics tools in developing public policies in accordance to real behaviors of people which -in turn- help in achieving sustainable development goals. Moreover, it was concluded that changing humans' behaviors toward more sustainable patterns of life provides so many opportunities to strengthen the effectiveness of policies for sustainable development in both developed and developing countries. Using behavioral economics tools, policymakers can design more effective policies to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

32

Jones, Patrick M. "Thoughtfulness and Grace: End-of-Life Decision Making for Children With Severe Developmental Disabilities." American Journal of Bioethics 16, no. 2 (February 2016): 72–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2015.1132046.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

33

Han, Heejin. "Singapore, a Garden City." Journal of Environment & Development 26, no. 1 (December 8, 2016): 3–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1070496516677365.

Full text

Abstract:

The rapid economic development of Singapore has been attributed to its plan-rational technocratic elite, according to the developmental state model. However, few studies have addressed the impacts of the country’s deeply entrenched developmental state tradition on its environment and environmental governance. This article establishes the nexus between these two by examining Singapore’s transition into a garden city. It demonstrates how the Singaporean government has maintained a top-down, nonparticipatory approach to policy making in line with the postulations of authoritarian environmentalism and how this mode of governance is related to the developmental state legacy. While Singapore’s environmental policy resulted in its international reputation as a model green city with a remarkable expansion of green spaces and infrastructure, these outputs signify the results of the developmental state’s deliberate planning and management based on a utilitarian view toward nature rather than on the outcomes of an organic and comprehensive transition to a green society.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

34

Carneiro, Maria José, and Teresa da Silva Rosa. "The use of scientific knowledge in the decision making process of environmental public policies in Brazil." Journal of Science Communication 10, no. 01 (March 21, 2011): A03. http://dx.doi.org/10.22323/2.10010203.

Full text

Abstract:

The way policy makers mobilize scientific knowledge in order to formulate environmental policies is important for understanding the developmental process of environmental policies. Some biodiversity conservation policies, such as those establishing the conservation units and laws on the regulation of land use in protected areas, were selected as objects of analysis. The aim was to see whether political decision makers are supported by scientific knowledge or not. Based on interviews with technical staff from governmental institutions, politicians and scientists, this study analyzed the way the knowledge is mobilized by policy makers concerning measures related to biodiversity conservation in the state of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). We have concluded that environmental policy makers do not normally use the knowledge produced by scientific and academic institutions. Rather than being based on a systematic bibliographic research on environmental issues, the decisions are supported either by personal experience or by expert advice. The measures under analysis were not supported by evidence based on knowledge but motivated by political or economic interests. Paradoxically, policy makers consider themselves sufficiently well informed to make decisions concerning the policy to be implemented.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

35

Chan, Alfred L. "The Campaign for Agricultural Development in the Great Leap Forward: A Study of Policy-Making and Implementation in Liaoning." China Quarterly 129 (March 1992): 52–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305741000041229.

Full text

Abstract:

As is well known, the Great Leap Forward (GLF) of 1958–59 was the most intense mobilizational phase in the history of the People's Republic of China and the most concentrated expression of the Utopian Maoist developmental model. Yet the adoption of an alternative development strategy to the Stalinist model by decentralization did not bring about material abundance; it led directly to an economic depression from which the country did not recover until 1965. Therefore, the “leap” is worthy of more scholarly attention than it has received. Of particular interest is the role played by the provinces in the policy-making process, the bureaucratic behaviour of the provincial authorities, the way policies were implemented, and the environmental constraints and how they affected policy-making.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

36

White, Tyrene. "Postrevolutionary Mobilization in China: The One-Child Policy Reconsidered." World Politics 43, no. 1 (October 1990): 53–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2010551.

Full text

Abstract:

The modernization or developmental model of communist regimes has been widely criticized, but the concept of revolutionary and postrevolutionary phases has endured. Implied in the dichotomy is a fundamental conflict between the politics of revolutionary mobilization (characterized by the push to disrupt and transform bourgeois routines and institutions of the old regime) and the postrevolutionary politics of regularized decision making and institutionalized party rule. The author uses the post-Mao Chinese experience and a case study of China's one-child policy to argue that variant forms of mobilization have remained an integral part of the postrevolutionary Chinese political process, as the Deng regime attempts to rearrange the institutions and routines characteristic of Maoist China rapidly and fundamentally, while preserving a Leninist political order.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

37

Pacheco, Mariana. "English-Language Learners' Reading Achievement: Dialectical Relationships Between Policy and Practices in Meaning-Making Opportunities." Reading Research Quarterly 45, no. 3 (July 9, 2010): 292–317. http://dx.doi.org/10.1598/rrq.45.3.2.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

38

Goldstein, Lisa S. "Kindergarten Teachers Making “Street-Level” Education Policy in the Wake of No Child Left Behind." Early Education & Development 19, no. 3 (May 30, 2008): 448–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10409280802065387.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

39

Lue, Jen-Der. "Globalisation, Democratisation and the Institutional Transformation of Taiwan's Welfare Regime." Social Policy and Society 13, no. 2 (February 19, 2014): 275–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s147474641300064x.

Full text

Abstract:

In the context of the discussion about the governance capacity of small states in the world market raised by Katzenstein, the case of East Asian newly industrialised countries is an interesting one. This article takes the development of social policy in Taiwan as a case study through which to explore the role of social policy in the process of rapid industrialisation in small states. It is argued that in the initial phase of industrialisation the productive component of social policy was highlighted by the developmental state to serve the goal of economic development. Social policy functioned at this stage as an effective instrument to dampen the cost of labour and thus contributed to the low-cost strategy of developmental state. Since the 1980s, however, social policy has been profoundly transformed as a consequence of economic globalisation on the one hand and domestic democratisation on the other. It is argued that social policy making since the 1990s in Taiwan has shifted in emphasis from the productive to the consumptive component. Finally, it is suggested that three factors will be decisive in determining Taiwan's social policy in the future: limited governmental revenues, fiscal strain due the public debt problem and the steering capacity of minority governments.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

40

Hisschemöller, Matthijs, and Cees J. H. Midden. "Improving the usability of research on the public perception of science and technology for policy-making." Public Understanding of Science 8, no. 1 (January 1999): 17–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0963-6625/8/1/002.

Full text

Abstract:

Studies on public reactions to science and technology may help policy makers who seek to involve the public in decision making on issues related to technological or scientific complexity. The paper seeks to understand how research on public reactions to science and technology can be used, addressing the following questions: What is good quality research? Which research offers data that are most useful for decision makers? An evaluation of the approaches used both in research on public reactions and in policy decisions shows that the general public can be considered in different roles; specific dimensions of those roles include the passive vs. active citizen-consumer, and the non-attentive vs. participative citizen. The paper presents a typology which links the research and policy approaches. It concludes that, in order to increase the usability of research on public reactions, the research and policy approaches should match. Equally important, researchers and policy makers should question their assumptions on the public's role rather than take their own assumptions for granted.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

41

Hallstrom, Lars K., and Glen T. Hvenegaard. "Fostering Evidence-Informed Decision-Making for Protected Areas through the Alberta Parks Social Science Working Group." Land 10, no. 2 (February 23, 2021): 224. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land10020224.

Full text

Abstract:

Since 2012, the Alberta Parks division in the Province of Alberta, Canada has been engaged in a process of building scientific, research, and evidence-informed capacity and practices across the parks system. Following a series of priority-setting workshops and agreements with the research, Parks management, and local communities, Alberta Parks has adopted a working group approach and subsequent framework, to support the research and decision-making goals of parks and protected areas management, and the research communities. This Social Science Framework is an innovative way to support evidence-informed decision-making in the public sphere by explicitly linking data-specific needs (benchmark data in social, natural, and applied sciences) with both established and emerging policy and research priorities. It is also a way to situate those needs within a broader goal of inter-organizational collaboration. This paper presents the background and developmental context to the framework, and its structure and desired functionality. The paper concludes with an assessment of the anticipated benefits and potential liabilities of this direction for linking academic and policy agents and organizations in a more formalized structure for environmental policy.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

42

Thomas, Terry. "Book Review: Punishment and Politics: Evidence and Emulation in the Making of English Crime Control Policy." Youth Justice 4, no. 3 (December 2004): 234. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/147322540400400309.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

43

Bogenschneider, Karen, and Elizabeth Gross. "From Ivory Tower to State House: How Youth Theory Can Inform Youth Policy Making*." Family Relations 53, no. 1 (January 2004): 19–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-3729.2004.00005.x.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

44

Kalkman, Kris, Gry Mette D. Haugen, and Marko Valenta. "‘They need to … ’: Exploring practitioners’ attitudes in relation to newcomer migrant children’s needs in Norwegian day care." Childhood 24, no. 3 (January 24, 2017): 366–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0907568216688244.

Full text

Abstract:

Taking a critical stance on day care as a social site for democratic practice, this article focusses on practitioners’ attitudes regarding including newcomer migrant children in the assessment of their needs and decision-making processes in Norwegian day care. Considering the needs-discourse as a way of conveying both policy-makers’ and practitioners’ conclusions about the requirements of migrant children’s childhoods, we reveal how the individual agency of practitioners is captured by developmental culture-bound norms regarding what an ideal childhood should be.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

45

Collicelli, Carla. "Subjective Indicators in the Health Sector and Their Usefulness in Policy Making." Social Indicators Research 114, no. 1 (July 16, 2013): 87–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11205-013-0385-9.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

46

Soonyang Kim. "The Developmental State and Social Policy-making Dynamics - Political Economy of the National Welfare Pension Scheme in the 1970s Korea -." Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies ll, no. 39 (December 2008): 189–219. http://dx.doi.org/10.16999/kasws.2008..39.189.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

47

Swain, James E., Suzanne C. Perkins, Carolyn J. Dayton, Eric D. Finegood, and S. Shaun Ho. "Parental brain and socioeconomic epigenetic effects in human development." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 35, no. 5 (October 2012): 378–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x12001112.

Full text

Abstract:

AbstractCritically significant parental effects in behavioral genetics may be partly understood as a consequence of maternal brain structure and function of caregiving systems recently studied in humans as well as rodents. Key parental brain areas regulate emotions, motivation/reward, and decision making, as well as more complex social-cognitive circuits. Additional key environmental factors must include socioeconomic status and paternal brain physiology. These have implications for developmental and evolutionary biology as well as public policy.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

48

Ahonen, Emily Q., and Steven E. Lacey. "Undergraduate Environmental Public Health Education." NEW SOLUTIONS: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy 27, no. 1 (March 3, 2017): 107–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1048291117697110.

Full text

Abstract:

Environmental, occupational, and public health in the United States are practiced across a fragmented system that makes work across those areas more difficult. A large proportion of currently active environmental and occupational health professionals, advocates, policy makers, and activists are nearing retirement age, while some of our major health challenges are heavily influenced by aspects of environment. Concurrently, programs that educate undergraduate college students in environmental health are faced with multiple, often competing demands which can impede progressive movement toward dynamic curricula for the needs of the twenty-first century. We describe our use of developmental evaluation to negotiate these challenges in our specific undergraduate education program, with the dual aims of drawing attention to developmental evaluation as a useful tool for people involved in environmental and occupational health advocacy, policy-making, activism, research, or education for change, as well as to promote discussion about how best to educate the next generation of environmental public health students.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

49

Friedman, Mark G., Ruthie-Marie Beckwith, and James W. Conroy. "Inclusion Is Transformative: Self-Advocacy Leaders' Perspectives on Board Inclusion and Tokenism." Inclusion 4, no. 3 (September 1, 2016): 183–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1352/2326-6988-4.3.183.

Full text

Abstract:

Abstract People with intellectual and developmental disabilities have begun to experience increased participation and inclusion in boards and policy-making bodies. They have, however, faced challenges in gaining full acceptance similar to those experienced by other marginalized groups. To date, the experience of board participation by individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities has typically been examined through the narrow lens of leadership development. The purpose of this study, which is part of the National Beyond Tokenism Research Study, was to seek the viewpoints of experienced leaders within the self-advocacy movement regarding the prevalence of tokenism and practices they have found effective for inclusive leadership. Implications for future research and practice are discussed.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

50

Miller, Amanda L., Hailey R. Love, Jennifer A. Kurth, and Alison L. Zagona. "Parent Identity and Family-School Partnerships: Animating Diverse Enactments for (Special) Education Decision Making." Inclusion 7, no. 2 (June 1, 2019): 92–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1352/2326-6988-7.2.92.

Full text

Abstract:

Abstract Family-school partnerships between family members and school personnel can be successful as well as unproductive for parents who have children and youth with developmental disabilities (DD). This qualitative study sought to capture parents' identities as they negotiated family-school partnerships when making inclusive education decisions and discussing special education service-delivery options for their children and youth with DD. Seventeen participants shared their personal narratives in interviews and focus groups. Data were thematically analyzed after an initial round of open-coding generated broad themes. Findings revealed that the experiences parents have in partnering with schools span an identity spectrum, including (a) victim, (b) advocate, (c) perseverer, (d) educator, (e) broker and negotiator, and (f) surrenderer. Implications for policy, practice, and research focus on parent identity and family-school partnerships.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

We offer discounts on all premium plans for authors whose works are included in thematic literature selections. Contact us to get a unique promo code!