Title: Political Leadership and Policy Characteristics in Population Policy Reform
Abstract: Not all population policies and programs successfully influence population size and growth rates. Policies may be controversial politically charged and or ineffectively implemented. The authors consider population policy reform defined as any deliberate government effort to redress perceived errors in prior and existing policies to limit or otherwise affect reproductive behavior. Focus is specifically given to the role of policy elites individuals officially responsible for making authoritative decisions for government in reform initiatives. A framework based upon a series of economic policy reform initiatives and sixteen cases of population policy change is presented to analyze policy change the social economic and administrative context within which policy elites operate circumstances surrounding specific policy issues and characteristics of the policy itself. Population policymaking is found to be more political and differing in other respects from policymaking in other development fields.
Publication Year: 1994
Publication Date: 1994-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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