Civil Servants and Public Policy: A Comparative Study of International Secretariats. By Robert I. McLaren. (Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 1980. Pp. xvi, 144. Index. $8.)

1981 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
pp. 1038-1039
Author(s):  
Leland M. Goodrich
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Civil Servants

International Relations: General: Jayantanuja Bandyopadhyaya: North Over South: A Non-Western Perspective of International Relations. South Asian Publishers, New Delhi, 1982, ix, 290 p., Rs. 95

1984 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 222-225
Author(s):  
B. Ramesh Babu ◽  
Samar Sen
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Western Perspective

ROBERT I. McLAREN: Civil Servants and Public Policy: A Comparative Study of International Secretariats. Wilfrid Laurier University Press Ontario, Canada, 1980, xvi, 144 p.

Comparing health policy: An assessment of typologies of health systems

2010 ◽  
pp. 185-201
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Institutional Context ◽  
Health Policies ◽  
Ideal Types

Typologies have been central to the comparative turn in public policy and this paper contributes to the debate by assessing the capacity of typologies of health systems to capture the institutional context of health care and to contribute to explaining health policies across countries. Using a recent comparative study of health policy and focusing on the concept of the health care state the paper suggests three things. First, the concept of the health care state holds as a set of ideal types. Second, as such the concept of the health care state provides a useful springboard for analyzing health policy, but one which needs to be complemented by more specific institutional explanations. Third, the concept of the health care state is less applicable to increasingly important, non-medical areas of health policy. Instead, different aspects of institutional context come into play and they can be combined as part of a looser ‘‘organizing framework''.

On improving the ability of senior administrators in public policy-making

1986 ◽  
Vol 1 (0) ◽  
pp. 94-106
Author(s):  
Moon Hwa Chung
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Senior Administrators ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Effective Training ◽  
Operational Systems ◽  
Professional Degree ◽  
High Degree

The involvement of civil servants in formulating public policy is ever expanding. Consequently, in order to effectively respond to rapid changes of the administrative environment, and to resolve the increasing conflicts which are bound to occur in greater frequency among various parties, government administration must be developed to a professional degree. Thus, it is important to restructure policy making processes and to improve the relations with each environmental factor which affects the orderly operation of the overall policy making mechanism. It is even more critical to develop the quality of those civil servants who influence the policy making procedure. In order to realize the above goals, first, government recruiting and staffing systems must be improved to attract and retain competent, capable personnel from the labor market; It is important to develop and preserve a personnel system which is based on the merit principle in order to maintain a high degree of motivation and benefit from the full capacities of employees; Finally, it is imperative to make use of a diverse range of effective training programs, techniques, and operational systems which will equip civil servants with the skills and knowledge necessary to cope with ever increasing administrative demands and develop in them progressive oriented attitudes.

Corporatism, Public Policy and the Labour Movement: A Comparative Study

1985 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 439-456 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen McBride
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
State Interaction ◽  
One Dimension ◽  
Labour Movement ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Advanced Capitalist

This article identifies two dimensions which distinguish corporatism, especially as defined by Philippe Schmitter, from pluralism. Noting that most discussions of corporatism have emphasized one dimension and neglected the second, the article seeks to determine, empirically, whether the two dimensions are as closely associated as the concept suggests. The finding, for the cases studied, is that they are inversely rather than positively correlated. The search for an explanation of why this might be the case leads to two conclusions. First, that the management of labour-capital conflict in advanced capitalist countries has relied less on inter-group and group–state interaction than corporatist theory would suggest. Second, that Schmitter's conceptualization of corporatism is seriously flawed and that other corporatist writers avoid these flaws only at the cost of drastically reducing the concept's distinctiveness from pluralism.

scholarly journals Non-Compliance in Public Procurement – Comparative Study under EU Law

2020 ◽  
pp. 143-161
Author(s):  
Tünde Tátrai ◽  
Gyöngyi Vörösmarty
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
Public Spending ◽  
Eu Law ◽  
The Social ◽  
Complex Regulation ◽  
Public Money ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
Structure Knowledge

There is an expectation towards public policy to ensure efficiency in public procurement (manage public spending properly), ensure accountability and support the social, environmental and other economic and political goals. Increasingly complex regulation raises the question of whether its complexity helps or rather hinders the efficient spending of public money. This paper aims to contribute to the discussion going on about efficiency in public procurement. It investigates non-compliance in public procurement with the aim of revealing types of non-compliance and to structure knowledge on the effects of the remedy system to non-compliance.

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