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Public Policy Values || by Jenny Stewart (auth.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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More and more policy issues involve issues that are explicitly values-based, yet public policy analysis tends to skirt around the question of values. Public Policy Values overcomes this reluctance by showing how public policies enable values-choices to be made, often without seeming to do so. Should public funding be given to research involving human embryos? What is the 'best' way to deal with HIV AIDS? Should the wearing of Islamic headscarves be banned? How should choices be made between 'the environment' and 'growth'? More and more policy issues involve questions that are explicitly values-based, yet public policy analysis tends to skirt around the problem of values. Public Policy Values addresses this reluctance, by viewing public policies through the lens of the values-choices they embody. As such, the book emphasizes the values-based dimension of all policy. Public Policy Values devotes specific chapters to major values which drive public policy across developed nations including fairness, efficiency, and economic growth, as well as instrumental values, such as the degree of 'toughness' to be employed in dealing with social problems. Public management values are also discuss

Who reads Public Policy Values ||?

Author

Jenny Stewart (auth.)

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780230554009

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Philosophy, Political Science