scholarly journals Income Inequality: The Canadian Story, Edited by David A. Green, W. Craig Riddell and France St.-Hillaire (2016) Montreal: Institute for Research on Public Policy/Institut de recherche en politiques publiques (IRPP), 558 pages. ISBN: 978-0886-4532-99

2017 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 809
Author(s):  
Mark Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Income Inequality ◽  
Politiques Publiques

scholarly journals Les Audits Des Programmes ILDH : Les Balises D’une Évaluation Des Politiques Publiques Au Maroc

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed Belga ◽  
Anass Kihli
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Policy Evaluation ◽  
Institutional Framework ◽  
Public Budget ◽  
Policy Assessment ◽  
Politiques Publiques ◽  
Recent Method ◽  
New Form ◽  
Definition Of

Policy assessment in Morocco is a recent method to measure the performance of public budget. It is considred as a new form of control of the effictiveness and efficiency of goverment expenditure. However, polemics have intensified about the content and the method of this new practice of control. The conception of an institutional framework of evaluation of public policy evaluation, has stood up to the multiplicity of its stakeholders. The double identity of the evaluative approach, proclaimed by public administration and parliament, made the definition of this practice problematic. Recently, The initiation of the ILDH programmes performance audit recently, has given gave a new path to follow, so as to get to the reality of the goverment evaluative action in Morocco.

The Economic Roots of External Efficacy: Assessing the Relationship between External Political Efficacy and Income Inequality

2015 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 791-813 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikel Norris
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Income Inequality ◽  
National Level ◽  
State Level ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Efficacy ◽  
Multilevel Regression ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
The 1960S

AbstractExternal political efficacy, the belief that government is responsive to the demands of its citizens, has been declining in the United States since the 1960s. However, scholars do not yet fully understand the reasons for its decline. Nor have they found suitable explanations for why it fluctuates within the electorate. Drawing on the growing literature on the effects of income inequality on public policy, I posit that increasing income inequality factors into the decline of external political efficacy. Using multilevel regression models accounting for individual and contextual factors, I find increasing state-level income inequality has a substantial negative effect on external political efficacy. It is greater than most state and national-level economic measures or individual-level variables on external political efficacy. These results have important implications both for research on income inequality and political participation and also for research on income inequality and distributional public policy.

Policy, Politics and Political Science

2013 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 751-772 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael M. Atkinson
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Cognitive Psychology ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
The Political ◽  
Politiques Publiques ◽  
Political Feasibility ◽  
Power Differentials ◽  
Cognitive Deficiencies ◽  
Mesures Incitatives

Abstract.Political scientists are increasingly studying public policy in interdisciplinary environments where they are challenged by the political and normative agenda of other disciplines. Political science has unique perspectives to offer, including a stress on the political feasibility of policy in an environment of power differentials. Our contributions should be informed by the insights of cognitive psychology and we should focus on improving governance, in particular the competence and integrity of decision makers. The discipline's stress on legitimacy and acceptability provides a normative anchor, but we should not over invest in the idea that incentives will achieve normative goals. Creating decision situations that overcome cognitive deficiencies is ultimately the most important strategy.Résumé.Les politologues étudient les politiques publiques dans des contextes de plus en plus interdisciplinaires, où ils sont remis en question par les préoccupations politique et normatives d'autres disciplines. La science politique a des perspectives uniques à offrir, y compris un accent sur la faisabilité politique des politiques publiques dans un contexte de relations de pouvoir asymétriques. Nos contributions doivent être informées par les idées associées à la psychologie cognitive et nous devrions nous concentrer sur l'amélioration de la gouvernance, et notamment la compétence et l'intégrité des décideurs. L'accent de notre discipline sur la légitimité et l'acceptabilité fournit un point d'ancrage normatif, mais il ne faut pas trop investir dans l'idée que des mesures incitatives permettront nécessairement d'atteindre des objectifs normatifs. Créer des situations de décision qui surmontent les lacunes cognitives des acteurs est finalement la stratégie la plus importante à adopter.

scholarly journals GLOBALIZATION, SOCIAL WELFARE, PUBLIC POLICY AND LABOR INEQUALITIES

2004 ◽  
Vol 49 (02) ◽  
pp. 233-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
CLEM TISDELL ◽  
SERGE SVIZZERO
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Income Inequality ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Technical Change ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Lower Income ◽  
Social Expenditure ◽  
Contrasting View ◽  
Lower Income Countries

Income inequality has increased sharply in higher income and in many lower income countries. Theories attributing this to bifurcation of labor markets in higher income countries are examined. Some theorists attribute this bifurcation primarily to technical change with influence from globalization. Others take an opposite viewpoint. A contrasting view presented here is that globalization is strongly linked with technological change. More significantly even if globalization increases economic efficiency and growth in globalizing countries, it can raise income inequality and reduce social welfare in such countries. International fiscal competitiveness may, it is argued, contribute to income inequality and make all nations worse off. Trends in public social expenditure and in taxation receipts in higher income countries, including Singapore, are examined to determine the extent of empirical support for the theory.

scholarly journals Cultural Development and the Open Economy: A Democratic Issue and a Challenge to Public Policy

1994 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Raboy ◽  
Ivan Bernier ◽  
Florian Sauvageau ◽  
Dave Atkinson
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Open Economy ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Economic Globalization ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
The State ◽  
Dynamic Approach ◽  
Politiques Publiques ◽  
Cultural Sphere

Abstract: The context of economic globalization poses an unprecedented challenge to public policy in the area of culture, as the fragile balance between economics and culture, formerly ensured by the state, is called into question. Far from indicating that the state no longer has a role to play, the imperatives of cultural development demand a dynamic approach to public policy. The democratic stake of cultural development is to re-establish the citizen's right to contribute to public life and, in this respect, to promote access to and participation in the cultural sphere which, the authors maintain, is increasingly centred in the mass media. Résumé: Le contexte de la mondialisation économique pose un défi inouï aux politiques publiques dans le domaine de la culture, dans la mesure où l'équilibre fragile entre économie et culture, jadis assurée par l'État, est remise en question. Loin d'indiquer que l'État n'a plus un rôle à jouer dans ce contexte, les impératifs du développement culturel exigent une approche dynamique aux politiques publiques. L'enjeu démocratique du développement culturel est de rétablir le droit des citoyens à contribuer à la vie publique et, dans ce sens, de promouvoir l'accès et la participation à la sphère culturelle qui, selon les auteurs, est de plus en plus centrée dans les médias.

Commentary: Modern Political Economy and Public Policy

World Affairs ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 182 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-204
Author(s):  
Max J. Skidmore
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Income Inequality ◽  
National Economy ◽  
National Government ◽  
Conventional Wisdom ◽  
Productive Capacity ◽  
National Policies ◽  
Wise Use ◽  
And Control

This article directly and bluntly challenges traditional thought by casting aside conventional wisdom regarding the national economy, replacing it with Modern Political Economy and Public Policy. American national policies, I argue, should always, whenever possible, be universal, not targeted toward specific groups. Moreover, policies need to be crafted to achieve their goals, not to fit within budgetary constraints. The least government is the worst, not the best, and a miserly approach to spending is not “wise use of the taxpayers’ dollars.” The national government controls the currency, paying its bills in dollars. It issues dollars as needed, in whatever amount it chooses, and is unrestrained by the need to “find the money” or “pay-as-you-go.” Taxes are useful for purposes of regulation and control of income inequality, but are not relevant to expenditures. “Anything that is technically feasible,” I claim following Kelton and coauthors, “is financially affordable,” and there is no need to fear inflation so long as spending does not exceed the productive capacity of the economy. Despite conventional wisdom to the contrary, and regardless of the widely used jargon of politicians, when government spends, it is not using “The Taxpayers’ Money.”

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