| Great Policies: Strategic Innovations in Asia and the Pacific Basin Contributor(s): Montgomery, John D. (Editor), Rondinelli, Dennis A. (Editor), Pacific Basin Research Center (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0275950506 ISBN-13: 9780275950507 Publisher: Praeger OUR PRICE: $94.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 1995 Annotation: This book describes 11 "great policies" - strategic innovations designed to deal with problems that transcend normal boundaries of government action. Examples range from the Marshall Plan in the U.S. to the "reverse brain-drain" policy in China, and from the financing of land reform by the distribution of industrial bonds in Taiwan to exploration of community natural resource management in Latin America. These actions did not emerge incrementally from existing policies, but represented departures from conventional organizations and sectoral responsibilities. Although such strategic innovations are rare, these examples suggest that when they occur, they are recognizably different from policies that develop incrementally. They create new paradigms of public action, they generate new expectations and demands, and they require extraordinary processes of implementation. Such "mega-policies" imply the possibility of developing transferable lessons from otherwise unique cases. These "mega-policies" range from economic growth strategies to social initiatives and from international economic transactions to technical exchanges. This work will be of great interest to scholars and policy makers involved with economic and social change, and Asian/Pacific and Third World Studies. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Development - Economic Development |
| Dewey: 320.609 |
| LCCN: 95013915 |
| Lexile Measure: 1560 |
| Series: Bibliographies and Indexes in World |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.21 lbs) 264 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Scholars of public policy and regional and international studies describe large-scale policy changes of Asian and Pacific countries. Among them are land reform and export-led growth in Taiwan, Japanese educational innovations, China's study-abroad policy in 1978-93, rural development in Thailand, an |