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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Policy-making in an executive-led government : an analysis of the equal opportunities bill and the human rights and equal opportunities commission bill /

Chow, Lok-ning, Eric. January 1996 (has links)
Thesis (M.P.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 109-111).
82

A study of the review of district organisations and its implications on Hong Kong /

Lau, Yu-hang. January 2000 (has links)
Thesis (M.P.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references.
83

An analysis of policy agenda-setting in Hong Kong : the avian flu case /

Chiu, Yu-chow. January 1999 (has links)
Thesis (M.P.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 86-88).
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Policy-making in an executive-led government an analysis of the equal opportunities bill and the human rights and equal opportunities commission bill /

Chow, Lok-ning, Eric. January 1996 (has links)
Thesis (M.P.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 109-111). Also available in print.
85

An analysis of policy agenda-setting in Hong Kong the avian flu case /

Chiu, Yu-chow. January 1999 (has links)
Thesis (M.P.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 86-88). Also available in print.
86

A study of the review of district organisations and its implications on Hong Kong

Lau, Yu-hang. January 2000 (has links)
Thesis (M.P.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print.
87

Effects of change in inputs in policy-making for the South African public service

Ababio, Ernest Peprah 11 1900 (has links)
The negotiation process in South Africa did, by 1993, lead to change in inputs in policy-making, and led to change in political relations with specific reference to norms of equality and respect for human rights. Significantly, these changes imposed obligations on the public service on issues of transformation, amongst others: service delivery, restructuring, democratisation of the policy-making process, and representativity and equity. This study was undertaken to examine the latter two namely, to determine the policy-making mechanisms by which the public service seeks to legitimise the policy-making process by involving a wider populace in participation; and to examine legislation that exists on representativity and equity and their consequent implementation. In support of the empirical research, use and analysis of a theoretical study of public policy in Public Administration were undertaken. The analysis showed that the theoretical distinction in the roles of political office-bearers and appointed public officials in the policy-making process, was incorrect. Rather, the empirical study supported a close co-operation of the functionaries in the process, including implementation. Further, it was found that the various models for analysing public policy had all been applicable at different periods in the South African political system. For the purpose of this study, the hypotheses are formulated that the new political dispensation that ushered South Africa into a popular constitutional democracy impacted on the functioning of the public service, amongst others: • an obligation to involve a wider population in the policy-making process to achieve legitimacy; and • an obligation to enforce norms of representativity and equity through legislation and the implementation thereof. In the study of the policy-making process, it was empirically established that the public service does possess comprehensive mechanisms to engage the wider populace in consultation and negotiation on public policy-making. Yet, public participation was found to be thin. Further, it was established that elaborate legislation exists to change the demographic face of the public setvice, and there is progress on implementation of representativity and equity legislation with reference to target quotas, time frames and the control thereof. Proposals for further study on effects of change, are made. / Public Administration and Management / D. Litt et Phil (Public Administration)
88

L'institutionnalisation de l'évaluation des politiques publiques en Europe: étude comparée des dispositifs institutionnels en Belgique, en France, en Suisse et aux Pays-Bas

Jacob, Steve January 2004 (has links)
Doctorat en Sciences politiques et sociales / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished
89

The policy cycle of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in Canada

Lee, Michael L. 11 1900 (has links)
This paper uses the case of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) to examine the dynamics of the public policy cycle in Canada. A process approach is applied to examine the principal stages of the cycle: problem identification, agenda-setting, decision-making, and implementation. In examining these stages, the factors that drive the policy cycle and those that impede its progress are identified. The regulatory history of PCBs is traced to demonstrate some of the complexities of the policy cycle. As one of the better known hazardous wastes in Canada, PCBs have been the catalyst for the introduction of new toxic chemical regulations throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Since the late 1970s, regulatory policies have been developed and implemented for PCB use and handling. After major PCB accidents occurred during the second half of the 1980s, regulations were introduced for their transport, storage and disposal. This case study provides seven major conclusions: (1) before the right policy solution is found and implemented, several stages in the cycle may need to be repeated; (2) public perception is a key determinant of the policy problem; (3) focusing events are a critical factor in setting the agenda; (4) decision-making often takes an incremental approach due to incomplete information and divided policy jurisdictions; (5) successful implementation, particularly in divided jurisdictions, requires sympathetic officials who are supportive of the enabling legislation; (6) constituency group support is a necessary condition for policy implementation; and (7) to deal with public concerns which may impede the implementation process, officials need political and managerial skills. / Arts, Faculty of / Political Science, Department of / Graduate
90

Agenda-setting dynamics in Canada

Soroka, Stuart Neil 11 1900 (has links)
Agenda-setting hypotheses inform political communications studies of media influence (public agenda-setting), as well as examinations of the policymaking process (policy agenda-setting). In both cases, studies concentrate on the salience of issues on actors' agendas, and the dynamic process through which these agendas change and effect each other. The results, narrowly conceived, offer a means of observing media effects or the policy process. Broadly conceived, agenda-setting analyses speak to the nature of relationships between major actors in a political system. This study differs from most past agenda-setting research in several ways. First, this project draws together public and policy agenda-setting work to build a more comprehensive model of the expanded agenda-setting process. Secondly, the modeling makes no assumptions about the directions of causal influence - econometric methods are used to establish causality, allowing for a more nuanced and accurate model of issue dynamics. Quantitative evidence is derived from a longitudinal dataset (1985-1995) including the following: a content analysis of Canadian newspapers (media agenda), 'most important problem' results from all available commercial polls (public agenda), and measures of attention to issues in Question Period, committees, Throne Speeches, government spending, and legislative initiatives (policy agenda). Data is collected for eight issues: AIDS, crime, debt/deficit, environment, inflation, national unity, taxation, and unemployment. The present study, then, is well situated to add unique information to several ongoing debates in agenda-setting studies, and provide a bird's eye view of the media-public-policy dynamics in Canadian politics. Many hypotheses are introduced and tested. Major findings include: (1) there is a Canadian national media agenda; (2) the salience of issues tends to rise and fall simultaneously across Canada, although regional variation exists based on audience attributes and issue obtrusiveness; (3) there is no adequate single measure of the policy agenda - government attention to issues must be measured at several points, and these tend to be only loosely related; (4) the agenda-setting dynamics of individual issues are directly and systematically related to attributes such as prominence and duration; (5) Canadian media and public agendas can be affected by the US media agenda. / Arts, Faculty of / Political Science, Department of / Graduate

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