“Losing the War against Cancer”: Need for Public Policy Reforms

1993 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 3-5
Author(s):  
Samuel E. Epstein ◽  
Eula Bingham ◽  
David Rall ◽  
Irwin D. Bross
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Reforms

Regulation and Policy Reforms

2010 ◽  
pp. 68-103
Author(s):  
Sylvie Albert ◽  
Don Flournoy ◽  
Rolland LeBrasseur
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Open Source ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Collaborative Culture ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Technical Standards ◽  
Policy Information ◽  
Local Impact

This chapter examines the following ideas on regulation and public policy: • Information societies are enabled by regulations and public policies that support open communications; • Government, business and public sector collaboration is key to establishing policies that lead to economic and social development; • Open source applications, products and collaborative culture are accelerated by adopting universal technical standards; • To be sustained, accessibility to the Internet and keeping it free and open requires some vigilance; • Ways must be devised to assess the local impact of policy and regulations and to provide next steps.

The Batty Effect: Victim-Survivors and Domestic and Family Violence Policy Change

2021 ◽  
pp. 107780122110242
Author(s):  
Lisa J. Wheildon ◽  
Jacqui True ◽  
Asher Flynn ◽  
Abby Wild
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Family Violence ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Change Agents ◽  
Policy Entrepreneur ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Policy Actors ◽  
Sociopolitical Context ◽  
Criminological Theories

This article explores the influence of victim-survivors as change agents through the examination of the case of domestic and family violence advocate Rosie Batty. Utilizing public policy and criminological theories, and drawing from interviews with Batty and policy actors, the article examines the “Batty effect” and the convergence of factors that helped drive significant social and policy reforms in Australia. The article considers how Batty reflects characteristics of the policy entrepreneur and ideal victim, and how the sociopolitical context at the time provided the conditions for change. We conclude by exploring the implications for victim-survivor led policy change.

Comparing the conservation effectiveness of private water transactions and public policy reforms in the conserving California landscapes initiative

Water Policy ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 913-931 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy P. Duane ◽  
Jeff J. Opperman
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Environmental Flows ◽  
Relative Effectiveness ◽  
Water Rights ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Environmental Consequences ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Federal Contracts ◽  
System 1 ◽  
Water Impoundment

Recent efforts by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to reduce the environmental impacts of water impoundment and diversion have pursued two distinct but interacting strategies in California's complex water resources management system: (1) the private acquisition of water rights (wherein the NGO dealt directly with a private citizen and purchased water rights through a willing seller model) for instream or environmental flows or, through water rights transfers, in order to avoid further diversion of groundwater or surface water that could cause environmental harms and (2) active participation in public policy-making processes that attempt to influence the implementation of regulatory mechanisms, federal contracts or other forms of governmental influence to affect the diversion of water or the allocation of water rights in ways that directly address the environmental consequences of water impoundment or diversion. Determining the relative effectiveness of these two distinct (but complementary) strategies and how they interact is therefore relevant to a wide range of water stakeholders. This article compares the relative effectiveness of these two approaches, as well as their interactions, through an evaluation of efforts funded by the Packard Foundation in its Conserving California Landscapes Initiative from 1998–2002.

scholarly journals Sectoral Effects of Public Policy Reforms in Benin: Case of the Health System

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
Prince Comlan Eugene Adjovi ◽  
Ibrahima Thiam ◽  
Fabienne Fecher
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Health System ◽  
Policy Reforms

The Power of Human Rights Frames in Urban Security: Lessons from Bogotá

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsay Mayka
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
The World ◽  
Urban Security ◽  
Legitimate State ◽  
State Interventions

Governments throughout the world invoke human rights ideas to motivate policy reforms. What impact do rights-based frames have on the policy process? I argue that rights-based frames can generate new resources and institutional opportunities that restructure battles over public policy. These resources and opportunities can both initially legitimate state interventions that violate rights, while also creating openings to hold governments accountable for abuses committed by the state in the name of human rights. I develop this argument by analyzing a militarized security intervention in Bogotá, Colombia, which the local government framed as necessary to stop the commercial sexual exploitation of children—yet yielded new rights violations. This article reveals the material consequences of human rights discourses in battles over policing and urban planning.

Extending the OLG model

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Fehr ◽  
Fabian Kindermann
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Optimal Decision ◽  
Olg Model ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Economic Agents ◽  
Basic Model ◽  
Good Policy ◽  
Efficiency Effects

In Chapter 6 we used our basic OLG model to discuss the welfare and efficiency effects of various policy reforms. Of course, we have to be cautious in drawing robust conclusions fromsuch a policy analysis. In the basic model households only decide on their intertemporal consumption allocation. Hence, public policy solely distorts the savings decision and, consequently, most of the policy reforms hardly impact on economic efficiency but only redistribute across cohorts. Our analysis could be much more instructive when decisions of economic agents are multidimensional, so that various distortions induced by public policy interact. In this chapter we therefore introduce an extended individual decision process. Households not only decide on their savings, but also on their time use. Given a specific time endowment (say a day or a year), agents can either work in the market (and earn income), go to school (and acquire human capital for future income generation), or consume leisure. Public policy may distort all of these decisions. A good policy thus has to create a balance between intertemporal and intratemporal distortions. Finally, we study the implications of lifespan uncertainty and missing annuity markets, asking how public policy can improve the allocation of resources by providing insurance against longevity risk. In this section we allow households to decide how many hours to work in each period. The remaining time is used for leisure consumption which now features in household utility. Leisure demand in each period of the life cycle strongly depends on the respective value of human capital hj, which measures the value of the time endowment in terms of labour market productivity. Hence agents may work the same number of hours, but they may be differently productive, so that they earn a different wage per time unit. Whenever the wage a household earns in the labour market is very small, the household might want to consume more leisure than the actual time endowment. In order to guarantee that the time endowment is met, we calculate a so-called shadow wage μj,s. The shadow wage is added to the regular wage of the household and calculated such that the household’s optimal decision consists in consuming the household’s total endowment of time as leisure.

Enterprise Response to Public Policy Reforms: A Scan of Extant Literature and an Agenda for Future Research

1999 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Venugopal ◽  
M.R. Dixit
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Policy Environment ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
International Context ◽  
The Public ◽  
Organizational Differences ◽  
Industry Sectors ◽  
Vast Range

This paper scans the studies that have investigated the response of enterprises to public policy reforms and suggests an agenda for future research. It traces the evaluation of the literature on relationship between environment and organization as a backdrop for reviewing the 12 key research papers in the international context. It shows that organizations have responded more to the changes in the regulatory environment than in other types of environment. It also points to the shift from unfocused strategy to focused strategy as a response to the public policy environment. The Indian studies scanned by the paper have covered a vast range from understanding the rationale for the public policy reform to responses in specific industry sectors. Against this scan, the paper suggests an agenda for future research in the areas of disaggregated stud ies, organizational processes in strategy reformulation, learning and innovation, corporate governance, and inter-organizational differences in responses. A significant item on the agenda is the study of response of public policy to changes in the firm's strategy. The paper hopes that the agenda would stimulate the preparation of concrete research proposals that would extend the knowledge base of the interaction between the enterprise and its policy environment.

Conclusion

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Bronwen Horton
Keyword(s):  
Cardiovascular Disease ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Food Safety ◽  
Heat Illness ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Lay Public

What public policy reforms can help prevent heat-related syndemics in California’s fields—the intertwined epidemics of heat illness and cardiovascular disease that often lead to work mortality? This chapter reviews several important reforms to our immigration, labor, health care, and food safety policies that could help ensure the safety and health of those who harvest our food. It concludes with a discussion of acts of “pragmatic solidarity” in which we can all engage—that is, how the lay public and engaged and applied anthropologists can intervene to protect the health of some of the nation’s most “exceptional” workers.

Public Inquiries, Policy Learning, and the Threat of Future Crises

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alastair Stark
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Conventional Wisdom ◽  
Policy Learning ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Public Inquiry

This book is animated by a simple but very important question. Can post-crisis inquiries deliver effective lesson-learning which will reduce our vulnerability to future threats? Conventional wisdom suggests that the answer to this question should be an emphatic no. Inquiries are regularly vilified as costly wastes of time that illuminate very little and change even less. This book, however, draws upon evidence from an international comparison of post-crisis inquiries in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom to show that, contrary to conventional wisdom, the post-crisis inquiry is an effective means of learning from disaster and that they consistently encourage policy reforms that enhance our resilience to future threats. This evidence is accompanied by a re-booted conceptualization of the public inquiry, which better recognizes the complexity of the modern state, the challenges of policy learning within it, and contemporary forms of public policy scholarship.

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