Guidance for Governance : Comparing Alternative Sources of Public Policy Advice

by Weaver, R. Kent; Stares, Paul B.; Weaver, Kent; Nihon Kokusai Koryu Senta

• ISBN13: 9784889070507
• ISBN10: 4889070508
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Brookings Inst Pr

Summary

Traditionally, government bureaucracies have been the source of public policy initiatives and recommendations, but today the growing challenges to governance-more complex issues, the demands of civil society, and the changing nature of representative government, in particular-have made alternative or nongovernmental sources increasingly important if not essential.In this volume, experts from Brazil, Germany, India, Japan, South Korea, Poland, the United Kingdom, and the United States offer a comparative assessment of the state of policy advice from such alternative sources as independent "scholarly" think tanks, interest and advocacy centers, party think tanks, blue ribbon commissions, and legislative support organizations. Authors survey the availability and adequacy of these alternative sources of advice and offer specific recommendations for how to improve the quality of the advice.Contributors include Kuldeep Mathur (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India), Mo Jongryn (Yonsei University, South Korea), Andrew Rich (Wake Forest University), Robert Sobiech, (Warsaw University, Poland), Amaury de Souza (Instituto de Estudos Economicos, Sociais e Politicos, Brazil), Diane Stone, Warwick University, United Kingdom), Martin Thunert (Hamburg University, Germany), and Tadashi Yamamoto (Japan Center for International Exchange).

Author Biography

R. Kent Weaver is Senior Fellow in the Governmental Studies Program at the Brookings Institution. Paul B. Stares is Associate Director of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University and Senior Research Associate at the Japan Center for International Exchange

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
List of Abbreviations	ix
Guidance for Governance: An Overview	1	(30)
R. Kent Weaver
Paul B. Stares
United States	31	(40)
Andrew Rich
Japan	71	(18)
Yamamoto Tadashi
United Kingdom	89	(35)
Diane Stone
Brazil	124	(33)
Amaury de Souza
Germany	157	(50)
Martin W. Thunert
India	207	(24)
Kuldeep Mathur
Poland	231	(21)
Robert Sobiech
Republic of Korea	252	(25)
Mo Jongryn
About the Contributors	277	(4)
Index	281