Reading list of
"Civil Society Organizations and Policy Entrepreneurship:
Research and Policy in Development"
course
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Session 1
Hal Colebatch, ‘The Idea of Policy’ in Policy, Open University Press, 1998.
James W. Dearing and Everett M Rogers, Agenda Setting, Sage Publications, 1996. Ch. 1.
Peter DeLeon, ‘The Stages Approach to the Policy Process: What has it Done? Where is Going?’ In Paul A. Sabatier (ed) Theories of the Policy Process, Westview Press, 1999.
The Evidence Network: http://www.evidencenetwork.org (see the website)
Session 2
International Development Research Centre, Snapshots: Making the Most of Research, IDRC Canada June 2004.
Diane Stone, ‘Using Knowledge: The Dilemmas of Bridging Research and Policy’, Compare 32(3) 2002: 285-296.
Edward R. Tufte, ‘The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint’, Graphics Press LLC. 2003.
Session 3
Introduction to: Court, J., Hovland, I. and Young, J., 2004, From Research to Pro-Poor Policy: Evidence and the Change Process, London: ITDG Publication. Also available at: http://www.odi.org.uk/RAPID/Publications/Index.html
Bridging Research and Policy in International Development: An Analytical and Practical Framework. John Young and Julius Court, RAPID Briefing Paper 1, October 2004
RAPID, ‘CSO partnership programme: key terms and definitions, ODI RAPID, 2004.
Julius Court, John Young - The Context, Evidence & Links Framework
Session 4
Susana Borrás, & Kerstin Jacobsen, "The open method of co-ordination and new governance patterns in the EU", Journal of European Public Policy, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2004, pp. 185-208.
Rainer Eising, ‘Interest groups and the European Union’,: Cini, Michelle: European Union Politics, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2002, pp. 192-207.
Mary Kaldor, Global Civil Society, Polity 2003. Chapter 1.
Stella Ladi ‘Europeanization and Environmental Policy Change: A Research Design for the Study of South Europe‘, Paper presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions, Granada, 14-20 April 2005
Uwe Puetter and Stella Ladi - Levels of Governance and of Policy Making Audiences: National and European
Eric Johnson - How to Influence a Multilateral Organisation like the World Bank
Session 5
Johnson, Erik. Central Europe’s Think Tanks: A Voice of Reform’, CIPE 1996. CIPE, 1996. http://www.cipe.org/publications/fs/ert/e21/ceeE21.htm (see the website)
Stella Ladi ‘The Role of Experts in the Reform Process in Greece’, West European Politics, forthcoming.
Diane Stone in Diane Stone and Andrew Denham (eds) Think Tank Traditions, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2004.
R. Kent Weaver and Paul B. Stares (eds.) Guidance for Governance: Comparing Sources of Public Policy Advice, Japan Center for International Exchange, Tokyo 2001
Session 6
‘From Civil Society Research to Policy Development: The Transformation of the Soros foundations Network and its Roma Policies’ in Stone, Diane and Maxwell, Simon. eds, 2005, Global Knowledge Networks and International Development: Bridges Across Boundaries, Routledge. Chapter 11.
Nicolas Guilhot - Reforming the World George Soros, global capitalism and the philanthropic management of the social sciences
TIRI Governance Network: http://www.tiri.org/ (see the website)
Session 7
Executive Summary of: Emily Perkins and Julius Court, ‘Networks and Policy Processes in International Development: A Literature Review’, ODI Civil Society Program Background Paper, March 2005.
Diane Stone ‘Transfer Agents and Global Networks in the ‘Transnationalisation’ of Policy’, Journal of European Public Policy, 11(3) 2004: 545-66.
Wolfgang Reinicke and Francis Deng, Critical Choices: The United Nations, Networks and the Future of Global Governance, Ottawa, International Development Research Centre, 2000. Executive summary. Also available at: www.globalpublicpolicy.net/
Diane Stone - Transnational Policy Networks
Stella Ladi - Policy Transfer
Session 8
Derick W. Brinkerhoff and Benjamin L. Crosby, "Stakeholder Analysis" in Managing Policy Reform: Concepts and Tools for Decision-Makers in Developing and Transitioning Countries, Kumarian Press, 2002.
Scaling-up and communication: Guidelines for enhancing the developmental impact of natural resources systems research, DFID Natural Resources Systems Programme (DFID_NRSP), 2002
Session 9
Eugene Bardach, Policy Analysis: A Handbook for Practice. The Electronic Hallway Network: http://www.puaf.umd.edu/courses/puaf790/bardach.pdf (see the website)
Eoin Young and Lisa Quinn, Writing Effective Public Policy Papers: A Guide for Policy Advisors in Central and Eastern Europe, LGI, Budapest.
Book will be provided in Budapest; it can be downloaded at: http://lgi.osi.hu/publications/default.asp?id=112
Session 10
World Bank Knowledge Management Overview - http://siteresources.worldbank.org/WBI/Resources/EvolutionoftheKnowledgeBank.pdf
Video on Storytelling by Steve Denning - http://info.worldbank.org/etools/bspan/PresentationView.asp?PID=1189&EID=277
KM4Dev Web Site, resources from the last annual workshop - http://open.bellanet.org/km/modules.php?op=modload&name=DownloadsPlus&file=index&req=viewdownload&cid=51
Nurturing Three Dimensional Communities of Practice: How to get the most out of human networks, by Richard McDermott. Published in Knowledge Management Review, Fall 1999.
The Springboard: How Storytelling Ignites Action in Knowledge-Era Organizations, by Steve Denning. Published by Butterworth Heinemann, 2000. Introduction
Voice: Storytelling is Knowledge Management, by Victoria Ward and Kim Sbarcea. Published online, August 2001.
A chapter on Communicating Results from a book by Ray Stryuk called Managing Think Tanks.
- Erik Johnson - Knowledge Sharing Tools for Policy Influence
You must consult these Web resources
Session 11
Daniel Start and Ingie Hovland , Tools for Policy Impact: A Handbook for Researchers, October 2004
Book will be provided in Budapest.
Additional Useful References
Court, J. and Young, J., 2003, "Bridging Research and Policy: Insights from 50 Case Studies", ODI Working Paper 213, 2003. Available at: http://www.odi.org.uk/RAPID/Publications/Index.html
Court, J. and Cotterell, L. "What Political and Institutional Context Issues Matter for Bridging Research and Policy? A Literature Review and Discussion of Data Collection Approaches’" ODI-RAPID, 2005
Court, J. and Maxwell, S. Policy enterpreneurship for poverty reduction: Bridging research and policy in international development
Gladwell, M., 2000. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. Little, Brown & Co, London.
Haas, E.B., 1991. When Knowledge is Power: Three Models of Change in International Organisations. University of California Press.
Hajer, Maarten and Wagenaar, Hendrik (eds) 2003 Deliberative Policy Analysis: Understanding Governance in the Network Society, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Robert A. Heineman, et al, The World of the Policy Analyst, Chatham House Publishers 2002. Chapter 1. ‘Emergence of a Field’.
Hovland, Ingie, Knowledge Management and Organisational Learning: An International Development Perspective, An Annotated Bibliography, Working Paper 224, ODI, August 2003
Kingdon, J.W., 1984, Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies. Harpers Collins, New York.
Laws, Sophie with Caroline Harper and Rachel Marcus, 2003 Research for Development: A Practical Guide. London: Sage. 2003.
Marris, P. and Thornham, S. (eds), 1996, Media Studies, A Reader. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh.
Greg Marston and Rob Watts, ‘Tampering with the Evidence’, The Drawing Board: An Australian Review of Public Affairs, Volume 3, Number 3: March 2003, 143–163
http://www.econ.usyd.edu.au/drawingboard/journal/0303/marston_watts.htmlMattelart A. & M Mattelart, 1998. Theories of Communication, A Short Introduction. Sage, London.
Perkins E. and Court, J. ‘Networks and Policy Processes in International Development: A Literature Review’, ODI Civil Society Program Background Paper, March 2005.
Pollard, A. and Court, J., forthcoming 2005, "How Civil Society Organisations Use Evidence to Influence Policy Processes: A Literature Review", ODI Working Paper, Overseas Development Institute, London.
Ben Ramalingam, Implementing Knowledge Strategies: Lessons from international development , ODI Working Paper 244, April 2005
Sabatier, P. (ed) 1999, Theories of the Policy Process. Westview Press, Boulder.
Frances Stewart and Michael Wang, ‘Do PRSPs Empower Poor Countries And Disempower The World Bank, Or Is It The Other Way Around?’, Working Paper Number 108, EuroDad May 2003. http://www.eurodad.org/uploadstore/cms/docs/WBevalMay03.pdf
Struyk, Raymond, 2003 Managing Think Tanks, Urban Institute.
Diane Stone and Heidi Ullrich, Policy Research Institutes And Think Tanks In Western Europe: Development Trends And Perspectives, LGI Brief, 2003 http://lgi.osi.hu/publications/default.asp?id=231
Sutton, R. "The Policy Process: An Overview", ODI Working Paper 118. 1999. The Overseas Development Institute, 111 Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE11 7JD, UK.
de Vibe, Maja, Ingeborg Hovland and John Young, 2002. ‘Bridging Research and Policy: An Annotated Bibliography’, ODI Working Paper No 174, ODI, London. Available at www.odi.org/rapid
Carol Weiss, Organizations for Policy Analysis: Helping Governments Think, Sage 1992
Wenger, Ettienne. 1998 Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning and Identity, Cambridge University Press,
Wilson, "Expanding the Domain of Policy-Relevant Scholarship in the Social Sciences" http://apsanet.org/PS/march02/wilson.cfm
Aaron Widalvsky, Speaking Truth to Power: The Art and Craft of Policy Analysis, Boston: Little Brown and Co., 1979.
Relevant Web-sites
The Evidence Network: http://www.evidencenetwork.org
The Global Development Network: www.gdnet.org
IDRC – International Development Research Centre: www.idrc.ca/evaluation
Future Governance Programme: http://www.hull.ac.uk/futgov
The National Academies, Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy: http://www7.nationalacademies.org/cosepup/
LGI OSI related institutes: http://lgi.osi.hu/ppi/
OECD-PUMA: http://www1.oecd.org/puma/
RAPID ODI, Research and Policy in Development: http://www.odi.org.uk/rapid/
TPN – Transition Policy Network: http://www.urban.org/tpn/
UNDP Office of Development Studies: http://www.undp.org/ods/
US Congressional Research Service: http://www.loc.gov/crsinfo/whatscrs.html#about
UK Cabinet Office: http://www.cabinet-office.gov.uk/ (go to Policy Hub)
World Bank, Poverty Reduction Strategies and PRSPs, http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/strategies/
World Bank Institute: www.worldbank.org/wbi
YOU ARE ADVISED TO CONSULT THESE WEBSITES!
Aliyeva, Nigar
Cojanu, Magda
January 2005 Fiscal Reform in Romania: An Assessment of Its Fairness and Objectives
Farhodova, Lutfiya
Fenn, Bridget
Kabir, Yusuf
Policy Memo on Micro-Credit For Vulnerable Dwllers at Kolkata And Its Urban Agglomeration
Kanash, Tatsiana
Policy Memo on Alleviating Poverty of Large Families in Belarus
Lopez-Silva, Christian
Menkova, Viktoryia
Namdaldagva, Oyut-Erdene
Narron, Mark
Ojimamadov, Khudonazar
Rat, Christina
Policy memo for restructuring maternity benefits and child-raising indemnityfor parental leave
Risteska, Marija
Policy memo-"Clothing industry in Shtip-status and prospects"
Shabani, Nadia
Singh, Naresh
Siraj, Mazhar
Splett, Christian
Tawrycky, Daniel
Weyrauch, Vanesa