Public Policy Reform and Informal Institutions: The Political Articulation of the Demand for Work in Rural India

2018 ◽  
Vol 103 ◽  
pp. 284-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thibaud Marcesse
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Reform ◽  
Informal Institutions ◽  
Rural India ◽  
The Political

Adam Smith's Advisory Style as Illustrated by his Trade Policy Prescriptions

1995 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. M. Endres
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Reform ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
The Political ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Political Economist ◽  
Wealth Of Nations ◽  
Extensive Reference ◽  
Policy Discussion

The purpose of this paper is to recover Adam Smith's conception of the appropriate rules of argumentation for the political economist in public policy discussion. Our interest will be in Smith's attempt to model the advisory style which he thought appropriate for an economist writing on public policy issues, advising the legislature and debating constitutional problems. Inferences will be drawn from the scope and tone of Smith's work on some selected issues of economic policy reform discussed in The Wealth of Nations (hereafter WN). Extensive reference will be made to Smith's admission of the vital role of rhetoric in human affairs in his Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, and to Smith's view of the legislator's perspective on policy as enunciated in the Theory of Moral Sentiments.

On Defining Politics and How to Take it into Account

1983 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 13-13
Author(s):  
Avery Leiserson
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Aspect ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Elective Office ◽  
Teachers And Students

This essay addresses the problem of teachers and students who have reached the point of trying to find a common ground for perceiving (seeing) politics. This may occur almost any time during any social science course, but it cannot be assumed to happen automatically the first day of class in government, citizenship, or public affairs. Hopefully, the signal is some variant of the question: “What do we mean by politics, or the political aspect of human affairs?” A parade of definitions — taking controversial positions on public policy issues; running for elective office; who gets what, when and how; and manipulating people—is not a mutually-satisfying answer if it produces the Queen of Hearts’ attitude in students that the word politics means what they choose it to mean and nothing more.

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