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Cover Image: Lesson-drawing in Public Policy: A Guide to Learning Across Time and Space
  • Date: 01/01/1993
  • Format: Print Paperback
  • Price: $24.95
  • ISBN: 978-0-93454-032-2
  • Pages: 176
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Lesson-drawing in Public Policy: A Guide to Learning Across Time and Space
Richard Rose, University of Strathclyde

A Chatham House Title

Lesson-drawing in Public Policy introduces readers to a novel way of thinking about the familiar problems of public policy. It sets out the crucial questions that must be asked in order to draw logical and empirically sound conclusions from observing experiences in the past, or in other places.

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Table of Contents

1. Learning from Experience—Consciously and Unconsciously
Varieties of Experience
Proceeding to Learn

2. What Is Lesson-drawing?
Defining a Lesson
Drawing a Lesson
Is Lesson-drawing Possible?
The Need to Be Doubly Desirable

3. Searching for Lessons
Who Searches?
Dissatisfaction: the Stimulus to Search
Informal and Formal Sources of Ideas
Evaluating Lessons across Time and Space

4. Searching across Time
Obstacles to Searching the Past
Learning from One's Own Past
Unbounded Speculation about the Future

5. Seaching across Space
Searching within a National System
Searching within a Permeable International System
Bridging Time and Space: Their Present, Our Future

6. Contingencies of Lesson-drawing
Uniqueness of Programs
Institutions as Necessary Means
Resources as a Constraint
Complexity of Programs
Scale of Change
Impact of Interdependence
Values Shape Ends

7. Time Turns Obstacles into Variables
Responding to Changing Contigencies: As Time Goes By

References
Index

Bio(s)
Richard Rose, University of Strathclyde

Richard Rose is the author of many election books and scholarly papers. He is editor of International Encyclopedia of Elections, published by CQ Press. Rose is the director of the Center for the Study of Public Policy at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, where Neil Munro is a fellow scholar.

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