Transparency in Public Policy: Great Britain and the United States

by N. Finkelstein (Editor)

Overview

Framed within the context of comparative international policy discussions, this volume examines how recent public policy design has been influenced by combinations of market-based, regulatory and legal mechanisms. Five major public policy areas are discussed: health, education, environment, gun control, and budgeting.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333739938
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	03/02/2000
Edition description:	2000
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

NEAL D. FINKELSTEIN is an education policy researcher, with expertise in school finance and management. He is currently based at the University of California, Office of the President. As a Senior Program Officer with the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC, from 1997 to 1999 he worked on an extensive study of the financing of American primary and secondary education. From 1994 to 1996 he served as the Assistant Director of Policy Analysis for California Education at the University of California, Berkeley. He has written on education policy in the United States, including a contribution to School to Work: Research on Programs in the United States. In 1996-7 he was an Atlantic Fellow in Public Policy, based at the Institute of Education, University of Warwick, where he investigated the effects of the 1988 Education Reform Act from the perspective of school financing and management changes.

Table of Contents

Foreword; N.Deakin Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Transparency in Public Policy; N.D.Finkelstein Transparency of Health Policy Decision; S.H.Woolf Transparency in Education Policy; N.D.Finkelstein Decision-making Processes in Environmental Policy; R.L.Juni Rationing Human Organs for Transplant; J.Prottas Opaque Markets and Firearm Regulation; J.Leitzel Emerging Issues in Emergency Medical Rescue; T.Judge Power and Influence in the Making of British Budgets; L.Edwards Measuring Quality in Healthcare; P.G.Shekelle & M.Roland Index