Carrots, Sticks and Sermons: Policy Instruments and Their Evaluation (Comparative Policy Evaluation) - Softcover

Rist, Ray

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0765805464 ISBN 13: 9780765805461

Publisher: Transaction Publishers, 2003

Synopsis

The literature on policy strategies, instruments, and styles is impressive. Still, a complex variety of theoretical and conceptual approaches and analytical tools hamper a good overview. Carrots, Sticks, and Sermons proposes such a framework for the field and clearly shows how public policy instruments are classified, packaged, and chosen, while highlighting the role evaluation plays in the instruments-choice process.Carrots, Sticks, and Sermons offers a comprehensive analysis of categories and typologies of policy instruments. It classifies sticks, carrots, and sermons - or, more specifically, regulation, economic means, and information. Readers are offered a comparative perspective of evaluation practice in foreign contexts. Special attention is paid to the examples of Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, England, Canada, the United States, and the Republic of Korea. As such, this volume crosses language barriers that stand in the way of dispersing research results among the international community of theoreticians and practitioners. As nations become increasingly interdependent, problems of implementation and evaluation of policy choices will become issues of increasing gravity.Carrots, Sticks, and Sermons provides insights into the traditional and current practice of policy and program evaluation in various contexts. The book's theory of comparative public policy will produce understanding and guidance in designing better policies. It will be of wide interest to those in the fields of public policy, particularly policy design, policy implementation, policy evaluation, comparative politics, and economics.

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John McCormick

Edition details

• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0765805464
• ISBN 13: 9780765805461
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288