This book has been a long time in its writing, but fortunately as the decade has rolled on we have found that the simplistic private-good, public-bad propositions that heard in 1990 have been largerly discredited. The reader will find that s/he has a vast interdisiplinary range of concepts and analytical frame-works to explore.
This is a book about the way public policies are made and un-made. it seeks to explain how individual decisions and programs are shaped by the larger patterns of political life. The book does this by suggesting that policies emerge as the regular creations of policy systems.
Buku ini diterbitkan dalam upaya untuk menambah wawasan ilmu kebijaksanaan pemerintah bagi pengambil keputusan, utamanaya di tingkat daerah. Semoga buku ini dapat bermanfaat bagi pejabat pemerintah, masyarakat dan menambah khasanah kepustakaan.
Advokasi seperti halnya media lainnya yang berkait dalam rangka untuk pencapaian tujuan, tidaklah sehebat yang sering dibayangkan oleh pelakunya. Advokasi merupakan usaha sistematik dan teroganisir,untuk suatu perubahan secara bertahap-maju. Advokasi memang bukan revolusi, bahkan advokasi adalah suatu usaha perubahan sosial melalui media perjuangan yang menggunakan sistem yang ada.
This book is designed to cover materials required for research methods courses in MPA programs certified by the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPA). It is also appropriate for traditional social science methods courses if the instructor wishes ti use material focusing on examples and applications from the public policy area.
Buku ini membahas lebih jauh tentang apa dan bagaimana sesungguhnya proses kebijakan publik yang humanistik, serta memandang partisipasi sebagai sebuah kata kunci dalam setiap kebijakan publik.
Implementing Public Policy, the sixth book in Congressional Quarterly Press public policy series, is both appropriate and timely. In his simple but compelling book, professor George C. Edwards III of Texas A & M University examines four sets of categories -communication, resources, dispositions, and bureaucratic structure- all of which may contribute to or inhibit the implementationof public po…