"top-down policy" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a decision-making approach in which actions and changes flow from the highest levels of authority or management down to lower levels. Example: The company's success can be attributed to its efficient top-down policies, which allowed for quick and effective decision-making from the CEO to the rest of the employees.
This City Profile challenges the prevailing role-model idea of Fuxin's revitalization, with a particular focus on the emerging negative impacts engendered by the top-down policy interventions.
This paper proposes and assesses an institutional logics framework that combines a top-down, policy design approach with a bottom-up, implementation perspective on discretion.
Top-Down: Policy changes at national, state and provincial levels can enable behavioural change at the household and community levels.
A groundswell of feminist activism coalesced with top-down policy initiatives to create tangible differences in women's lives.
The scattered bureaucratic background of the six cases appears to support the notion that they were not the result of a top-down policy.
Be it propaganda or self-denial, such top-down policy doesn't just keep women in the sidelines on screen, it means they're sidelined behind the cameras, too.
Far more than his predecessor, Mr. Bernanke is trying to move away from top-down policy-making and toward actions and statements that reflect the differing views of the Fed's 10 current policy makers.
It seems that the faculties identified with the right-hemispheric activities are most important in the higher levels of an organization, at least in those with "top-down" policy-making systems.
ABM is a bottom-up approach that can solve spatial problems and can be integrated with top-down policies and spatial analysis tools.
I cannot see how the problems identified can be resolved by yet more centralised, top-down policies.
Brexit itself presents opportunities to rebalance top-down policies with bottom-up experience and expertise to enhance outcomes.
