Public Policy

Achter elke wet, begroting en overheidsprogramma schuilt een web van concurrerende belangen, moeilijke afwegingen en urgente vragen over wie wat krijgt en waarom. Deze boeken werpen een blik achter de schermen van het bestuur en onderzoeken hoe politieke systemen het dagelijks leven vormgeven — van hervorming van de sociale zekerheid en gezondheidszorg tot de groeiende kloof tussen de rijken en de rest.

Public Policy Boeksamenvattingen

Policy Paradox

door Deborah Stone • 1988

Policy runs on stories and symbols more than spreadsheets. The winner defines the problem.

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🏛️ Policy Analysis 🔲 Framing Effects 🏗️ Social Construction

Policy Paradox

Policy runs on stories and symbols more than spreadsheets. The winner defines the problem.

door Deborah Stone 1988 428 pagina's

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🏛️ Policy Analysis 🔲 Framing Effects 🏗️ Social Construction

Recoding America

door Jennifer Pahlka • 2023

Government's tech catastrophes share one cause: it treats code as a purchase, never a practice.

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🖥️ Gov Tech 🔄 Digital Transformation 🔁 Agile Government

Recoding America

Government's tech catastrophes share one cause: it treats code as a purchase, never a practice.

door Jennifer Pahlka 2023 336 pagina's

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🖥️ Gov Tech 🔄 Digital Transformation 🔁 Agile Government

An Introduction to the Policy Process

door Thomas A. Birkland • 2001

Policy fails less from bad ideas than from the battles over attention, framing, and implementation.

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🏛️ Policy Process 📋 Agenda Setting ⚙️ Policy Implementation

An Introduction to the Policy Process

Policy fails less from bad ideas than from the battles over attention, framing, and implementation.

door Thomas A. Birkland 2001 288 pagina's

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🏛️ Policy Process 📋 Agenda Setting ⚙️ Policy Implementation

Best Things First

door Bjørn Lomborg • 2023

Saving 4.2 million lives yearly costs $35 billion, if you fund only the most effective policies.

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🌍 Development Economics 📊 Benefit-Cost Analysis 🤲 Effective Altruism

Best Things First

Saving 4.2 million lives yearly costs $35 billion, if you fund only the most effective policies.

door Bjørn Lomborg 2023 314 pagina's

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🌍 Development Economics 📊 Benefit-Cost Analysis 🤲 Effective Altruism

In Our Hands

door Charles Murray • 2006

Eliminate every welfare program. Send every adult one check. It costs less and ends poverty.

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🏦 Universal Basic Income 📋 Welfare Reform 🏘️ Civil Society

In Our Hands

Eliminate every welfare program. Send every adult one check. It costs less and ends poverty.

door Charles Murray 2006 152 pagina's

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🏦 Universal Basic Income 📋 Welfare Reform 🏘️ Civil Society

The World's Banker

door Sebastian Mallaby • 2004

Wolfensohn went to Nigeria to speed development. A prison cell taught what no plan can.

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🌱 Development Economics 🤝 Multilateralism 💵 Foreign Aid

The World's Banker

Wolfensohn went to Nigeria to speed development. A prison cell taught what no plan can.

door Sebastian Mallaby 2004 496 pagina's

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🌱 Development Economics 🤝 Multilateralism 💵 Foreign Aid

The Cost-Benefit Revolution

door Cass R. Sunstein • 2018

Government rules used to be about politics. Then Reagan made them about arithmetic.

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⚖️ Cost-Benefit Analysis 📜 Regulatory Policy 🏛️ Technocratic Governance

The Cost-Benefit Revolution

Government rules used to be about politics. Then Reagan made them about arithmetic.

door Cass R. Sunstein 2018 288 pagina's

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⚖️ Cost-Benefit Analysis 📜 Regulatory Policy 🏛️ Technocratic Governance

In Service of the Republic

door Vijay Kelkar • 2019

India's economic crisis is a crisis of state capacity, not of policy ideas.

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🇮🇳 Indian Economy 🏛️ Public Policy Design ⚙️ State Capacity Building

In Service of the Republic

India's economic crisis is a crisis of state capacity, not of policy ideas.

door Vijay Kelkar 2019 448 pagina's

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🇮🇳 Indian Economy 🏛️ Public Policy Design ⚙️ State Capacity Building

Fragmented Democracy

door Jamila Michener • 2018

Your zip code decides your Medicaid benefits. It also decides whether you bother with politics.

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🏛️ American Federalism 🏥 Health Policy ⚖️ Political Inequality

Fragmented Democracy

Your zip code decides your Medicaid benefits. It also decides whether you bother with politics.

door Jamila Michener 2018 236 pagina's

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🏛️ American Federalism 🏥 Health Policy ⚖️ Political Inequality

Public Citizens

door Paul Sabin • 2024

How liberal crusaders against big government paved the road for Reagan’s anti-government revolution.

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⚖️ Public Interest Law 📜 Regulatory Reform 🌿 Environmental Activism

Public Citizens

How liberal crusaders against big government paved the road for Reagan’s anti-government revolution.

door Paul Sabin 2024 272 pagina's

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⚖️ Public Interest Law 📜 Regulatory Reform 🌿 Environmental Activism

Asymmetric Politics

door Matt Grossmann • 2016

Republicans push ideology. Democrats serve groups. The mismatch broke American politics.

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🗳️ Party Politics 🇺🇸 American Politics ⚖️ Political Polarization

Asymmetric Politics

Republicans push ideology. Democrats serve groups. The mismatch broke American politics.

door Matt Grossmann 2016 414 pagina's

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🗳️ Party Politics 🇺🇸 American Politics ⚖️ Political Polarization

The Submerged State

door Suzanne Mettler • 2011

Half of Americans who use government programs say they never have. That gap is no accident.

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🕶️ Hidden Welfare State 💸 Tax Expenditures ⬆️💰 Upward Redistribution

The Submerged State

Half of Americans who use government programs say they never have. That gap is no accident.

door Suzanne Mettler 2011 176 pagina's

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🕶️ Hidden Welfare State 💸 Tax Expenditures ⬆️💰 Upward Redistribution

Understanding Public Policy

door Thomas R. Dye • 1969

Governments make policy through many lenses. An eight-model toolkit shows why each is half right.

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🏛️ Public Policy Analysis 🇺🇸 American Government 🔍 Policy Frameworks

Understanding Public Policy

Governments make policy through many lenses. An eight-model toolkit shows why each is half right.

door Thomas R. Dye 1969 368 pagina's

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🏛️ Public Policy Analysis 🇺🇸 American Government 🔍 Policy Frameworks

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