Policy as linear and nonlinear science

Geller, Henry; Johnston, A. P.

doi:10.1080/0268093900050104

Cited by 14 publications

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“…This study provides evidence that suggests and supports a view that policy implementation is developmental (McLaughlin 1987), complex and messy (Ball 1990(Ball , 1994, chaotic rather than ordered and structured (Geller and Johnston 1990), and iterative. This study has highlighted the intrense nature of micro-political interaction in policy implementation.…”

Section: Implications For Policy Analysis and Theorysupporting

confidence: 66%

Implementing policy for homeless kids in schools: reassessing the micro and macro levels in the policy debate in Australia

Corbitt

1997

Journal of Education Policy

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This study suggests that the debate over the nature of policy is far from resolved. The extent to which the extremes of the debate about the role of the state in policy, about interpretations about power in policy process and about the differential nature of fine-grained examinations of policy at the local level versus larger scale theorizing, affect interpretation are questioned. Based on a case study of the implementation of a policy dealing with homeless student in four Victorian, Australia, High schools, this paper suggests that the conceptualizations of the state and understanding the nature of power relations in policy process are more complex than any other authors have suggested. The analysis of the policy implementation process showed that whilst at certain times the power of the state appeared to be crucial and central, at other times the power of the state was decentred and significantly reduced, with power and control of policy being refocused at the school level.

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Section: Implications For Policy Analysis and Theorysupporting

confidence: 66%

Implementing policy for homeless kids in schools: reassessing the micro and macro levels in the policy debate in Australia

Corbitt

1997

Journal of Education Policy

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“…Policy is too often interpreted as linear and rational. 21 Success and failure are generally explained in terms of the extent to which rationally determined policy objectives are met using similarly determined policy instruments. We would argue that the policy process reflects underlying ideologies and values 22 that direct and dictate the thrust of the decisions themselves.…”

Section: Policy Analysis Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Acceptance and Leadership--Hegemonies of E-Commerce Policy Perspectives

Corbitt¹,

Thanasankit²

2002

Prometheus

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This paper presents an analysis of the e-Commerce policies developed and implemented in the USA, Canada, Australia, Victoria, Finland, Norway, the UK, Ireland, the EU (by the OECD), Singapore, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand and Hong Kong (Special Administrative Region). The paper shows that e-Commerce policy adopted is generally trying to achieve two fundamental aims: 1. to minimize regulatory environments for e-Commerce; and 2. to ease logistical problems in doing e-Commerce - i.e. in paying electronically, in delivery of goods and in customs, tariffs and duties. These strategies are designed to create an environment where e-Commerce is adopted by business and government in these countries to achieve 'best practice', to become 'modern', to gain 'efficiencies', because 'it is the way to go', because 'we must have it, because everybody has it', and because they 'perceive the benefits of it'. In essence it is being used to gain hegemony in the economic competitiveness of the geopolitical environment created by the Internet. This paper argues that differentiating types of policy is related to ideology and hegemony in the various countries.E-COMMERCE Policy, Policy Analysis, Hegemony, Policy Typology,

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“…First, as Geller and Johnson's (1990) case studies make clear, policy-making is far from being a linear and predictable science. Second, the imposition of the state's (or an organization's) will by direct control of its citizens through overt surveillance and coercive action is beyond the capability of even the most totalitarian state and certainly would not be tolerated in multivalent and culturally diverse democracies.…”

Section: Imagining Transformation: Disrupting What Ismentioning

confidence: 99%

An Equitable Organization

Wallace

2002

Educational Management & Administration

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We live in separate realities. But we live with each other. (T.B. Greenfield, in Greenfield and Ribbins, 1993: 88) Greenfield was concerned about two persistent values dilemmas for the social sciences and for education policy: how do we understand not only our separate realities but also how we can live together in ways that do not do undue violence to our separate realities? Hans-Georg Gadamer describes the challenge of human coexistence this way:

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Policy as linear and nonlinear science

Cited by 14 publications

References 7 publications

Implementing policy for homeless kids in schools: reassessing the micro and macro levels in the policy debate in Australia

Implementing policy for homeless kids in schools: reassessing the micro and macro levels in the policy debate in Australia

Acceptance and Leadership--Hegemonies of E-Commerce Policy Perspectives

An Equitable Organization

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