Carrots, Sticks and Sermons

Policy Instruments and Their Evaluation
Herausgeber: Bemelmans-Videc, Marie-Louise; Vedung, Evert; Rist, Ray

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Produktbeschreibung

Research on policy strategies, instruments, and styles incorporates a complex variety of theoretical and conceptual approaches and analytical tools. Carrots, Sticks, and Sermons proposes an overarching framework for the field, one that clearly shows how public policy instruments may be classified, packaged, and chosen, while highlighting the role evaluation plays in which instruments are used. The book offers a comprehensive analysis of categories and typologies of policy instruments. It categorizes these as sticks, carrots, and sermons--or, more specifically, regulation, economic means, and information. It also offers readers a comparative perspective on evaluation practice in foreign contexts, with special attention paid to the examples of Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, England, Canada, the United States, and the Republic of Korea. As such, this volume crosses language barriers that stand in the way of dispersing research results among the international community of theoreticians and practitioners. As nations become increasingly interdependent, implementation and evaluation of policy choices made by different nations will become issues of increasing gravity. Carrots, Sticks, and Sermons will be of wide interest to those in the fields of public policy, particularly policy design, policy implementation, policy evaluation, comparative politics, and economics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nordic Africa Institute
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 154mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9780765805461
• ISBN-10: 0765805464
• Artikelnr.: 22392376

Autorenporträt

John McCormick

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Policy Instrument Choice and Evaluation
Part 1: Typology of Instruments
1. Policy Instruments: Typologies and Theories
2. The Stick: Regulation as a Tool of Government
3. The Carrot: Subsidies as a Tool of Government - Theory and Practice
4. The Sermon: Information Programs in the Public Policy Process--Choice
Effects
and Evaluation
5. The Give-and-Take Packaging of Policy Instruments: Optimizing Legitimacy and Effectiveness
Part II: Choice and Context
6. Choosing the Right Policy Instrument at the Right Time: The Contextual Challenges of Selection and Implementation
7. Contracting-Out and Program Evaluation: A Case Study
8. Government-Sponsored Enterprises as a Credit Allocation Tool in the United States
9. The Invisible Problem and How to Deal with It: National Policy Styles in Radiation Protection Policy in The Netherlands
England
and Belgium
10. The Management and Privatization of Korea's Public Enterprises
11. Conclusions: Policy Instruments Types
Packages
Choices
and Evaluation
Contributors
Index