Great Policies
Strategic Innovations in Asia and the Pacific Basin
Edited by John D. Montgomery and Dennis A. Rondinelli
Under the auspices of the Pacific Basin Research Center
0-275-95398-X/978-0-275-95398-0
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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 do 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 extraodinary processes of implementation. Such "mega-policies" imply the possibility of developing transferable lessons from otherwise unique cases.
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[I]ntended for use in public policy courses....The case studies in the book are interesting examples of strategic policy innovations, an important area of policy studies....As well as the intrinsic interest in the case studies and the analysis of policy innovation, the work draws attention to the increasing importance of comparative studies as an accepted area of academic interest within the broad field of international studies.
—Political Studies
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