Great policies
Subtitle: strategic innovations in Asia and the Pacific Basin
By: edited by John D. Montgomery and Dennis A. Rondinelli ; under the auspices of the Pacific Basin Research Center.
Contributors: Montgomery, John Dickey, 1920-; Rondinelli, Dennis A.; John F. Kennedy School of Government. Pacific Basin Research Center.
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: Marshall Plan.; Policy sciences.; Policy sciences -- Case studies.; Land reform -- Taiwan.; Education and state -- Japan.; Economic assistance, Japanese -- China.; China -- Economic policy.; Korea -- Economic policy.
Description: This book describes 11 "great policies" - strategic innovations designed to deal with problems that transcend normal boundaries of government action. Examples range from the Marshall Plan in the U.S. to the "reverse brain-drain" policy in China, and from the financing of land reform by the distribution of industrial bonds in Taiwan to exploration of community natural resource management in Latin America.

These actions did not emerge incrementally from existing policies, but represented departures from conventional organizations and sectoral responsibilities. Although such strategic innovations are rare, these examples suggest that when they occur, they are recognizably different from policies that develop incrementally. They create new paradigms of public action, they generate new expectations and demands, and they require extraordinary processes of implementation. Such "mega-policies" imply the possibility of developing transferable lessons from otherwise unique cases.

These "mega-policies" range from economic growth strategies to social initiatives and from international economic transactions to technical exchanges. This work will be of great interest to scholars and policy makers involved with economic and social change, and Asian/Pacific and Third World Studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.