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0000-0002-7518-3951
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Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 21-01-2015
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 25-09-2013
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 06-12-2012
Publisher: Inderscience Publishers
Date: 2007
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-2015
Abstract: The persistence of policy failures is a recognized but not well-understood phenomenon in the literature of the policy sciences. Existing studies offer only limited insights into the persistence of policy failures as much of the literature on the subject to date has focused on conceptualizing the topic and differentiating between different types of failures. Much less attention has been paid to systematically examining the sources of the problems which lead to recurrent failures. Collectively, the articles in this issue move this discussion forward and show the persistence of policy failures can be better understood by examining a wide range of factors both within and beyond a policy subsystem, especially the nature of the political system and its influence on decision making, governance capacity and the impact of its limitations on the chances for policy success, and levels of uncertainty in policy knowledge and practice, which continue to plague decision making and decision makers.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 09-2015
DOI: 10.1016/J.POLSOC.2015.09.001
Abstract: Although policy capacity is among the most fundamental concepts in public policy, there is considerable disagreement over its definition and very few systematic efforts try to operationalize and measure it. This article presents a conceptual framework for analysing and measuring policy capacity under which policy capacity refers to the competencies and capabilities important to policy-making. Competences are categorized into three general types of skills essential for policy success—analytical, operational and political—while policy capabilities are assessed at the in idual, organizational and system resource levels. Policy failures often result from imbalanced attention to these nine different components of policy capacity and the conceptual framework presented in the paper provides a diagnostic tool to identify such capacity gaps. It offers critical insights into strategies able to overcome such gaps in professional behaviour, organizational and managerial activities, and the policy systems involved in policy-making.
Publisher: The Pennsylvania State University Press
Date: 04-2010
DOI: 10.1080/19390451003643544
Abstract: In this paper we develop a simple framework in macroeconomics for evaluating environmental investments that bear national significance. The framework rests on the concept of fiscal balance and the premise that environmental taxes must be returned towards restoring and/or enhancing environmental capital investments. We further illustrate that traditional frameworks in macroeconomics are not capable of evaluating the social desirability of environmental investments owing to the absence of environmental variables in these frameworks. The framework developed here shows that the recognition of environmental capital depreciation in macroeconomics permits the differentiation between various environmental investments in terms of their environmental impacts. These impacts are measured in terms of the costs of abating pollutants associated with climate change. The framework and its application are illustrated with reference to environmental investments in Vietnam.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 04-01-2013
Abstract: This article examines the role of health governance in shaping the outcomes of healthcare reforms in China. The analysis shows that the failure of reforms during the 1980s and 1990s was in part due to inadequate attention to key aspects in health governance, such as strategic interactions among government, providers and users, as well as incentive structures shaping their preferences and behaviour. Although more recent reforms seek to correct these flaws, they are insufficiently targeted at the fundamental governance problems that beset the sector. The article suggests that the Chinese government needs to heighten its efforts to enhance health governance and change the ways providers are paid if it is to succeed in achieving its goal of providing health care to all at affordable cost.
Location: Singapore
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