policy-maker

policy-making | Business English

policy-making
noun[ U ]
uk /ˈpɒləsiˌmeɪkɪŋ/us
GOVERNMENT, POLITICS, ECONOMICS
the activity of deciding new policies for a government, political party, etc.:
Evidence based on research is vital to the process of policy-making.

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Chapter five is again a rather theoretical one because the author deals with different types of policy and policy-making, policy analysis and electoral systems.
Economic policy-making is indeed the subject of this book, but it does not really cover the period 1964-2000.
During the 1980s, the new government tried to manage the economy independently of outside influences, and policy-making was dominated by domestic pressures.
This gain is not present where the administering authority has no policy-making power.
The privy council continues to be regarded as the main, corporate, advisory body and extra-conciliar counsel as antipathetical to the ' normal ' process of policy-making.
Therefore, a division of competences persists in which the federal government is primarily responsible for policy-making, while state governments are primarily responsible for policy implementation.
At the same time, the federal government is unlikely to abandon its role in policy-making.
In the 1990s economic policy-making has been largely reactive : either to crises, like drought, or to donor pressure.
The evidence suggests that the organization of central-local policy-making does indeed contribute to our understanding of differences across nations as well as across policy areas.
Apparently, the first year of economic policy-making by the purple coalition has been - in retrospect - characterized by developing a new practice of negotiating incomes policy.
The pensioners' organisations that emerged as the welfare state matured have changed policy-making and gained considerable influence.
Such loss of direct usability in policy-making and analysis is another drawback of physical indicators.
Other virtues, however, especially the leadership virtues, manifested themselves throughout the 1973-96 period in the course of both policy-making and implementation.
This is then applied to consider in turn the nature of the public sphere, policy-making, policy implementation and societal incorporation.
This is because in democracies, multiple principals, including the public and the legislature, have increased access to the policy-making process and, hence, influence over bureaucrats.
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