MAKING policy happen - Charlesworth; Paton (New York : Routledge, 2006)
This collection is for people who are charged with 'making policy happen' - that is, people who are professionally involved in devising, advocating, drafting, negotiating, interpreting, enacting, monitoring or reviewing public policy.'Making policy happen' can mean two things.It may refer to bringing a policymaking process to fruition - so that a (more or less) agreed policy can be announced, providing thereafter a justification and direction for various specific initiatives.Or it may refer to policy implementation - the design and development of programmes, regulation, codes, new agencies or services through which policy directly or indirectly affects the lives of citizens.
Keywords: Political planning