In "Edmund Burke in America" (Cornell), the historian Drew Maciag inventories the many contradictory roles that Burke has played in our local imagination, where, as he notes, "homage to Burke was more a profession of faith than an explanation of policy".
[ 61, 66- 68] The alternative approach to technical rationality, from which only a very partial explanation of policy can be derived [ 27], puts the emphasis on the interpersonal and contextual relations of the policy process.
Policy entrepreneur theory is consistent with other comparative public policy explanations of why policies change in Africa, including the role of informal institutions (Helmke and Levitsky 2004; Bratton 2007) and 'Big Man' rule (Hyden 2006).
Critical junctures not only contribute to understandings of how policy change is connected to past events but can also provide enriched explanations of future policy directions.
The Reagan Administration's public explanations of the policy remain muddy.
"And it's a difficult thing to overcome fear with facts, to overcome campaign slogans with explanations of complex policy decisions.
Irving R. Levine, the longtime NBC News correspondent whose easily accessible explanations of monetary policy, fluctuations in the Dow Jones industrial average and the intricacies of the global market helped make the economy a staple of television news, died in Washington on Friday.
In his opinion, Boy Scouts of America v. Dale, No. 99-699, the chief justice quoted from various Boy Scouts publications and explanations of the policy, noting that though the terms "morally straight" and "clean" in the Scout Oath and Law "are by no means self-defining," Scout officials interpreted them as statements of opposition to homosexuality.
Third, grassroots state behaviors are the focus in explanations of deviating policy implementation and related governance problems.
Explanations of immigration policy vary along two main dimensions: the factors of analysis considered, namely the emphasis on the role of ideas, interests or institutions in immigration policy-making; and the level of analysis adopted, namely the localization of the primary source of immigration policy within society, the state or the international arena.
