Although the causes of the Deepwater Horizon spill are not yet conclusively identified, significant attention has focused on the safety-related policies and practices—often referred to as the safety culture—of BP and other firms involved in drilling the well. This paper defines and characterizes the economic and policy forces that affect safety culture and identifies reasons why those forces ma...

This book is a forceful and entertaining argument why culture values should be taken much more seriously, both by policy makers, but also in the curricula of modern Public Policy Administration programs. The author not fundamental sceptic managerial politics administration, he shows inherent limits, contradictions, blind spots this kind making. He succeeds particularly well because can draw on ...

Abstract The policy and practice nexus in this chapter aims to investigate how Swedish regulated support activities, inspired by an inclusive approach, are theoretically designed governance, interpreted documents put into the classroom. culture of education face multiple demands which makes it necessary elaborate with a deeper more detailed explanation for understanding activities formed presen...

background advocacy coalitions play an increasingly prominent role within the global health landscape, linking actors and institutions to attract political attention and resources. this paper examines how coalitions negotiate among themselves and exercise hidden forms of power to produce policy on the basis of their beliefs and strategic interests.   methods this paper examines the beliefs...