Statutory coherence and policy implementations: the case of family planning

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Precise rules and regulations of a particular policy prescription yield clear and positive results. The policy must identify clear goals, and indicate coherent rules for administrative responsibility and policy implementation. These should be assigned to committed agencies. A time series analysis of the US family planning policies indicates that only Title X, the categorical grant program, achieves maximum intended success due to its coherent rules. Title X has the maximum positive effect on birth and abortion rates, prenatal care and infant mortality.

Analysis, Laws, regulations and rules, Policy sciences, Family planning services, Administrative responsibility

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Missing the Lisbon target? Multi-level innovation and EU policy coordination

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The European Council decided to apply the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) to innovation policies, with an aim of establishing a European Research Area wherein the OMC shall increase the coherence of regional, national and European policies, at its Lisbon Summit in March 2000. An alternative approach known as the 'multi-level system of innovation' concept is introduced in order to reveal why the Lisbon strategy is likely to miss its target.

Management, Europe, Forecasts and trends, Industrial research, European Union

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Decentralization and privatization: education policy in Chile

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Chile's policies on the decentralization and privatization of education reveal greater inequity on expenditures and on the performance of students from different brackets of society. Insights on the effectiveness of the strategies of other public services found that decentralization improved both administrative and productive efficiency. However, privatization is not the remedy for the low quality of education in Chile.

Chile, Privatization, Privatization (Business), Schools, School decentralization

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