Policies and Politics of Dualism

Politics or policies vs politics and policies: a comment on Lundberg.

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Politics, Policies, and Poverty in Latin America

Explorer Policies , politics and organizational problems

Kingdon's multiple streams approach has recently been applied to study implementation across sectors or levels of government. Building on these contributions, we suggest that two streams are especially important in shaping implementation: organizational problem constructions, and political pressure from the centre. These variables produce a four-way typology of implementation modes. We test the...

Do Private Policies Create a New Politics ?

Through an analysis of corporate testimony before Congressional committees, this paper finds that members of Congress supply greater access to firms that engage in private policymaking at higher rates and that members also gain new politicaland policy-relevant information through such testimony. Importantly, the former relationship only holds for firms that make identifiable commitments to alte...

The Politics of Poverty Measurement and Social Policies: Global Observations

Countries of all shapes, sizes, and characteristics have been experimenting with various forms of social policy to reduce poverty. However, these experiments have not allowed governments to proclaim povertyfree zones and a universally agreed upon and proven strategy has not emerged to magically reduce poverty. Part of the reason for this difficulty in devising proven strategies is political sin...