Description
| Product ID: | 9781108405515 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Understanding the Policymaking Process in Developing Countries |
| Authors: | Author: William Ascher |
| Page Count: | 252 |
| Subjects: | Public administration, Public administration, Central / national / federal government policies, Development economics and emerging economies, Political economy, Central government policies, Development economics & emerging economies, Political economy, Developing countries |
| Description: | This book provides a uniquely comprehensive and practical guide to help development practitioners, leaders, activists, and students to diagnose and improve policy processes in developing countries. It covers a wide range of issues and challenges, including aborted programs and projects, policy impasses, distorted implementation, unnecessary harm and conflict, and shortsighted initiatives. Understanding the Policymaking Process in Developing Countries provides a uniquely comprehensive and practical framework for development practitioners, policymakers, activists, and students to diagnose and improve policy processes in developing countries across a wide range of issues. Based on the classic policy sciences approach, the book offers over 100 diagnostic indicators keyed to identify problems of policy processes, policy content, bureaucratic behavior, stakeholder behavior, and national-subnational interactions. This multi-disciplinary framework is applied to a host of policy problems that particularly plague countries experiencing the ''under-development syndrome'', including aborted programs and projects, policy impasses, distorted implementation, unnecessary harm and conflict, and shortsighted initiatives. These points are illustrated through cases from Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Based on the developing countries'' distinctive challenges, the book also offers recommendations on improving policy content and institutions to address the typical limitations. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-11-16 |
