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.

• 1. Beyond Good Policies / John D. Montgomery -- 2. The Original Megapolicy: America's Marshall Plan / John Orme -- 3. Growth with Equity Megapolicies in Taiwan: Land Reform and Export-Led Growth / John Orme -- 4. Strategic Notions and Great Policies: Reflections on Taiwan's Experience with Economic Transformation / Bruce F. Johnson and Albert Park -- 5. Japan Jets International: Implementing Innovations in Educational Policy / David L. McConnell -- 6. Reversing China's Brain Drain: The Study-Abroad Policy, 1978-1993 / Paul Englesberg -- 7. Intended Consequences, Unintended Means: Thailand's Accelerated Rural Development Policy / Fred R. von der Mehden -- 8. Agro-Industrial Development Policies in Korea, 1910-1970 / Vijaya Ramachandran -- 9. From Marx to Markets: China's Economic Reforms as a Megapolicy / Shang-Jin Wei -- 10. Energy Conservation as a Megapolicy: The Case of China / Lin Gan -- 11. Japan's Official Development Assistance to China: A Bilateral Megapolicy / Quansheng Zhao -- 12. Community Natural Resource Management Policies in Colombia and Mexico / William Ascher -- 13. Processes of Strategic Innovation: The Dynamics of Decision Making in the Evolution of Great Policies / Dennis A. Rondinelli. 

• 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 

Ämnesord

Policy sciences  (LCSH)

Policy sciences  -- Case studies (LCSH)

Land reform  -- Taiwan (LCSH)

Education and state  -- Japan (LCSH)

Economic assistance, Japanese  -- China (LCSH)

China  -- Economic policy (LCSH)

Korea  -- Economic policy (LCSH)

Institutionsnamn

Marshall Plan

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Qad-oe Ekonomiska förhållanden: Östasien

Ocf-oe Främmande länders statskunskap och politik: Östasien

Oab-oe Sociala strukturer: Östasien

Klassifikation

320/.6/095 (DDC)

Qad-oe (kssb/6)

Ocf-oe (kssb/6)

Oab-oe (kssb/6)