Policy studies in developing nations

• Page count

  372 pages

• Category

  Political Science & Theory

• Publisher

  JAI Press Inc.

• Ebook file size

• Language

  English

Summary

This volume concentrates upon the theme of policy analysis concepts and methods, viewing it from an institutional and implementation focus. Environmental policy issues are emphasized with an analysis of low-level common pool Woodstock governance, Madagascar's national environmental action plan, agriculture policy assessment and forestry and irrigation policies. The text is international in its focus with case studies taken from Nepal, the Philippines, China and Africa. Emphasis is placed upon issues of policy reform and cutting the costs of corruption.

Table of contents

• Integrating institutional and implementation issues into policy decisions - an introduction and overview. Part 1 Policy analysis and the new institutionalism: analyzing policy reform and reforming policy analysis - an institutionalist approach, Ronald J. Oakerson and S. Tjip Walker; the institutional analysis and development framework - application to irrigation policy in Nepal, Wai Fung Lam, Myungsuk Lee and Elinor Ostrom; an institutional analysis of local-level common pool woodstock governance and management - implications for environmental policy, James T. Thomson; analyzing bureaucracy and rural development policy implementation - the limits of hierarchy, Norman K. Nicholson. Part 2 Policy analysis and implementation frameworks: a comparative approach to the assessment of decentralization policy in developing countries, Richard Vengroff and Ogwo Jombo Umeh; analyzing the role of the public sector in Africa - implications for civil service reform policies, Jerry M. Silverman; sustainability assessment for agriculture policies - comparative cases from agricultural extension, Daniel J. Gustafson; an analytic framework for policy implementation - assessing progress with Madagascar's national environmental action plan, Derick W. Brinkerhoff; exporting policy paradigms - the case of Chinese forestry, Peter de Leon and Vicki L. Spencer. Part 3 Policy analysis and implementation tools: stakeholder analysis and political mapping - tools for successfully implementing policy reforms, Benjamin L. Crosby; interactive policy analysis - process methods for policy reform, Louise G. White; analytic approaches to reducing the costs of corruption - West African livestock marketing and trade policy, John S. Holtzman and Nicholas P. Kulibaba; climbing the objective tree - policy analysis and reform in the Philippines, Alice L. Morton.