Tag: Policy

Free Download Nurlan Aliyev, "Reassessing Russia’s Security Policy "
English | ISBN: 1032382961 | 2023 | 298 pages | EPUB, PDF | 677 KB + 22 MB
This book provides a detailed analysis of the evolution of Russia’s security policy. Based on extensive original research, including an analysis of official documents, political and military elite speeches, interviews, and reports, and considering the subject from the early 20th century onward, the book evaluates how far Russia’s security policy is underpinned by "strategic asymmetry"―the acceptance by Russia of its inferior military position, and the pursuit of its strategic aims through the application of a variety of methods, military and non-military, including the manipulation of public opinion, the use of economic leverage, and external security approaches―known as Russia’s "hybrid war operations"―to gain the advantage over a militarily and economically superior adversary. The book discusses how Russia’s security policy has been and is being applied in specific cases, including the present war in Ukraine, the Russian anti-satellite program, and Russia’s contemporary Afghan policy. The aim of the book is to explain how and why Russia uses different security strategies and methods using these three cases.

Free Download Ishtiaq Jamil, "Policy Response, Local Service Delivery, and Governance in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka"
English | ISBN: 3030660176 | 2021 | 283 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book analyzes contemporary issues in governance, policy management, and policy performance both at the central and local levels in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. The focus is on some central social issues such as empowerment, the inclusion of minorities, institutional trust, policy implementation, and local service delivery. Although these three countries have recently opted for democratic governance, the journey to establish and consolidate democracy as well as enhance governance capacity have been painful and filled with challenges. The chapters in this volume are country specific studies based on empirical data both quantitative and qualitative collected for several years and presented in readable prose. This does not, however, rule out the general applicability of the findings to other contexts within and beyond the borders of these countries. Despite huge differences in South Asia, the policy and governance issues and challenges that are explored, highlighted, and analyzed also have commonalities with other South Asian countries.

Free Download Jonathan C. Kamkhaji, "Policy Learning and the Euro: The EU’s Responses to the Sovereign Debt Crisis"
English | ISBN: 3031042638 | 2022 | 203 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book analyzes the EU’s responses to the sovereign debt crisis that hit the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) in 2010. After reviewing the events that led to the crisis, it examines two case studies. The first assesses the short-term policy changes by drawing on a new mechanism, contingent learning. The second case study revolves around the long-term EMU reforms passed during the period 2010-2013. More specifically, it assesses these responses in relation to the institutional scientific publications of the European Central Bank and the DG ECFIN of the Commission. By analyzing both the short and long-term responses to the sovereign debt crisis, the book elucidates how policy learning can be an effective engine for deeper European integration. It will be of interest to scholars and students of EU integration, the EMU, policy learning, and supranational bureaucracies.

Free Download Kashif Raza, "Policy Development in TESOL and Multilingualism: Past, Present and the Way Forward"
English | ISBN: 9811636028 | 2021 | 315 pages | PDF | 7 MB
The book is of interest to scholars of multilingualism, language teachers, researchers, and administrators who are developing policies on teaching English and promoting multilingualism. Given its scope, this edited collection provides an overview of how multilingualism is transforming the practice of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) in diverse contexts around the world. It serves as a platform for discussions related to policy enactment where TESOL and multilingualism are viewed as collaborative endeavours and approaches the topic from three different angles. The first section of the book provides critical examinations of previous initiatives and accomplishments in the area of language policy development and implementation. The second section describes current projects and initiatives intended to expand and strengthen the field of TESOL while providing space for local and indigenous languages to develop. The third and last part of the book highlights policy development areas that need special consideration in order to develop a form of TESOL that builds on and contributes to multilingualism.

Free Download Policy Design for Research and Innovation: Politics, Institutions and Interest Intermediation Practices
by Claudia Acciai
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031366271 | 268 Pages | True PDF | 5.8 MB

Free Download Policy Analysis: A Practical Introduction
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031553632 | 255 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 5 MB
The six chapters in Part II are a resource for reflective practice, introducing theory to address questions policy analysts confront in the course of their work. What is the purpose of politics and public policy? How do I know I am making a difference? How do I tackle working with stakeholders with different, competing, or conflicting interests? How might I navigate conflicting claims relating to identity and culture? And how can I balance responsiveness to current demands with responsibility to future generations?

Free Download Miklós Sebők, "Policy Agendas in Autocracy, and Hybrid Regimes: The Case of Hungary "
English | ISBN: 3030732223 | 2021 | 334 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Over the past thirty years the comparative study of policy agendas under the aegis of the Comparative Agendas Project (CAP) has become one of the fastest growing sub-field in policy research. Yet, similarly to policy studies in general, most of the agenda-setting literature focuses on well-established democracies. This edited volume offers a ground-breaking analysis of a hitherto less examined topic in comparative politics: the dynamics of policy agendas in Socialist autocracy and in hybrid regimes. We propose that policymaking in authoritarian and illiberal regimes is different from the practices of democracies which we analyse based on a unique historical policy agendas database built by the Hungarian CAP team at the Centre for Social Sciences in Budapest. We find that punctuated equilibrium theory offers a good description of policy dynamics regardless of policy regimes, yet punctuations are more pronounced in autocratic and illiberal settings. These regime types also share a tendency towards centralization, a less efficient use of public information and a suppression of democratic participation in the policy process. This book may be of interest to scholars and students of policy studies, agenda-setting and the politics of authoritarianism.

Free Download Adam Izdebski, "Perspectives on Public Policy in Societal-Environmental Crises: What the Future Needs from History "
English | ISBN: 3030941361 | 2022 | 356 pages | PDF | 7 MB
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Free Download Open Government and Freedom of Information: Policy and Practice in Asia and the Middle East
by Habib Zafarullah and Noore Alam Siddiquee
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031358627 | 415 Pages | True PDF | 8.9 MB

Free Download Saul S. Friedman, "No Haven for the Oppressed: United States Policy Toward Jewish Refugees, 1938-1945 "
English | ISBN: 0814343732 | 2017 | 320 pages | EPUB | 969 KB
No Haven for the Oppressed is the most thorough and the most comprehensive analysis to be written to date on the United States policy toward Jewish refugees during World War II. Friedman draws upon many sources for his history, significantly upon papers which have only recently been opened to public scrutiny. These include State Department Records at the National Archives and papers relating to the Jewish refugee question at the Roosevelt Library at Hyde Park. Such documents serve as the foundation for this study, together with the papers of the American Friends Service Committee, of Rabbis Stephen Wise and Abba Silver, Senator Robert Wagner, Secretary Hull and Assistant Secretary of State Breckinridge Long, of the American Jewish Archives, the National Jewish Archives, and extensive interviews with persons intimately involved in the refugee question.