Public policy decision making refers to actions taken within governmental settings to formulate, adopt, implement, evaluate, or change environmental policies. These decisions may occur at any level of government. At the most general level,...

Policy centers or think tanks (as they are often called) are an influential, diverse part of the U.S. not-for-profit sector. Those that contribute to discussions of science, technology, and ethics include organizations such as the liberal progressive...

A policy is a deliberate plan of action to guide decisions and achieve rational outcome(s). The term may apply to government, private sector organizations and groups, and individuals. Presidential executive orders, corporate privacy policies, and...

'You wait 20 years for a comprehensive policy statement on our towns and cities and then two come along at once.' This response, heard at a recent conference, is hardly insightful, but does indicate just how far away we are from a 'joined-up' strategy...

Myanmar's socialist agricultural programme operated from 1962 until its demise in 1988. It consisted of taxation and suppression of the agricultural sector by means of compulsory government procurement of agricultural products at a fraction of market prices, severe restrictions on domestic trade, and restrictions...

The next few weeks and months may be the most dangerous time for wise public policy circa 2009-2016. Unless someone else gets into the presidential race and wins, one of the current crop of candidates will be the next president. (For anyone trying to get...

We initially intended to shut down the comments section entirely, for two reasons. First, the nastiness and digressive stuff was making it hard to read. Second, the guarantee that the subject of a post would be jumped on by anonymice, and nonymice, was dissuading people...