Provides a definition and description of the planning region T8 (St. Patrick County), with general development policies for the region and sub-regions.

Over the past decades, research on policy formulation, especially research on agenda-setting, has demonstrated that the actions of individuals (or groups) labelled ‘policy entrepreneurs’ constitute a central aspect of the ...

This Thematic Special Issue on Policy Change and Policy Dynamics has as its main objective to present and discuss agenda setting, one of the most important issues for the study of public policies and the policy process. ...

This article advises that school administrators should ensure that teachers arrive at clear understandings of macro and micro policies, since it argues that in the school situation, policy needs definition, declaration, ...

This article aims to present a brief reflection on the studies in the field of the public policy agenda. To this end, the text presents the main theoretical and methodological developments on the subject found in the ...

This paper aims to map and analyze the attention of some actors and institutions on health policies in Brazil between 1986 and 2003. This model of research on the government agenda is known under the term of policy dynamics ...

Policy hierarchies and automated policy refinement are powerful approaches to simplify administration of security services in complex network environments. A crucial issue for the practical use of these approaches is to ...

International transparency policy indexes (ITPIs) help determine billions in investment and aid, influence 'authoritative' scholarship, and shape policy choices. Are ITPIs valid yardsticks.of transparency, or do they ...