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David B. Audretsch ; Grilo, Isabel; Thurik, A. Roy (2007), Explaining entrepreneurship and the role of policy: a framework, in: David Audretsch, Isabel Grilo and A. Roy Thurik (eds.), Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship Policy, Edward Elgar Publishing

David B. Audretsch und Beckmann, Iris A.M. (2007), From Small Business to Entrepreneurship Policy, in: David Audretsch, Isabel Grilo and A. Roy Thurik (eds.), Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship Policy, Edward Elgar Publishing

David B. Audretsch, Gilbert, Brett Anitra; McDougall, Patricia P. (2004), The Emergence of Entrepreneurship Policy, Small Business Economics 22


Armenian Volunteer Corps

The organization provides opportunities such as Cross-cultural training, volunteer placement support, and community service projects, matching volunteers with professional internship and volunteer service opportunities in various areas such hospitals, public policy institutions, schools, Cultural organizations, technology centers, newspapers, summer camps, community development organizations, government ministries, and orphanages.

Center for Policy Studies

The Center for Policy Studies (CPS) is an academic unit within Central European University, dedicated to improving the quality of governance in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union by the provision of independent public policy analysis and advice.

Department of Public Policy at UMBC

The department provides graduate education with a Master of Public Policy (M.P.P) and a Ph.D. in Public Policy.

Jean Lipman-Blumen

Dr. Jean Lipman-Blumen is the Thornton F. Bradhshaw Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Organizational Behavior at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California.

Les Aspin Center for Government

The Center's mission is to offer students who are interested in public policy a chance to work and study in the United States capital or study abroad in developing countries like Kenya and Tanzania through its Africa program.

Maseko v Maseko

heard in the Witwatersrand Local Division by Lazarus AJ from 22 to 25 October, 1990, with judgment handed down on 16 November, is an important case in South African contract law, with its stipulation, on the question of legality, that contracts designed to mislead creditors are immoral and against public policy.

Michael P. Kelly

Michael P. Kelly (born January 31, 1954) is an architect and urban planner who has led the public housing authorities of several large U.S. cities, and is a leading advocate for public policy that promotes affordable housing in the country.

Nay Win Maung

Maung left Burma for four months in 2004 to attend the Yale World Fellows Program at Yale University in the United States, focusing on public policy.

Same-sex marriage in Utah

Park City School District Board of Education members adopted a policy in 2011 which provides domestic-partner benefits to district employees including those who are part of same-sex relationships.

Totalitarian democracy

In his paper Advances in Chinese Social Sciences (2001), Mao Shoulong, a professor of Public Policy at Renmin University of China, takes a different position.

Vittorio Hösle

In category (1) we might place many opinion pieces on public policy written in German newspapers.


see also

AACF

Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, an organization which encourages public policy in Arkansas that will benefit children and their families

Allen Scott

Allen J. Scott (born 1938), professor of geography and public policy

Black Cabinet

The Black Cabinet was first known as the Federal Council of Negro Affairs, an informal group of African-American public policy advisors to United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Building Bridges Coalition

The Public Policy Group, co-chaired by Senator Harris Wofford and John Bridgeland, focuses on policy development and education, and advances recommendations that include doubling the Peace Corps and creating a Global Fellowship to sponsor individual volunteers.

Carl Spielvogel

Mr. Spielvogel lives in New York City, with his wife Dr. Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, the author of 19 books on art, architecture and public policy.

Center for an Urban Future

The Center for an Urban Future is an American public policy think tank based in Manhattan, a borough of New York City in the United States.

Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago

M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies/Masters in Public Policy - offered with the Irving B. Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago

Council for Agricultural Science and Technology

The Borlaug CAST Communication Award is presented annually for outstanding achievement by a scientist, engineer, technologist, or other professional working in the agricultural, environmental, or food sectors for contributing to the advancement of science in the public policy arena.

Cullen Sheehan

In July 2011, Sheehan received an award as a Leader in Public Policy from Politics In Minnesota/Capitol Report as the Top Legislative Staffer at the Minnesota State Capitol.

Dalia Mogahed

She is also a nonresident senior public policy scholar at Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut.

David Zurabishvili

In 1996 together with Levan Ramishvili, Givi Targamadze and Giga Bokeria he co-founded the Liberty Institute, a non-profit, non-partisan, liberal public policy advocacy foundation based in the capital Tbilisi.

East Bay Bicycle Coalition

The coalition, and its diverse constituencies, have achieved numerous public policy accomplishments over the years in areas of state and local legislation and administrative regulation to include: helping secure $1 billion in funding for the Regional Bicycle Network included in MTC's T2035 Plan; bicycle access on BART trains, all Bay Area ferry services, all East Bay bus systems, as well as bicycle access on Golden Gate Transit buses across the Richmond-San Rafael bridge.

Ernest van den Haag

Ernest van den Haag (September 15, 1914, The Hague – March 21, 2002, Mendham, New Jersey) was a Dutch-American sociologist, social critic, and John M. Olin Professor of Jurisprudence and Public Policy at Fordham University.

Eugene J. McCarthy Center for Public Policy

Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania

Eugene Jarecki

Jarecki is also the founder and executive director of The Eisenhower Project, an academic public policy group, dedicated in the spirit of Dwight D. Eisenhower, to studying the forces that shape American foreign policy.

Francis Gurry

“The Evolution of Technology and Markets and the Management of Intellectual Property Rights”, in Frederick M. Abbott and David Gerber (eds.) Public Policy and Global Technology Integration, (Kluwer Law International, London, 1997), ISBN 90-411-0655-3

Giga Bokeria

In 1996, together with Levan Ramishvili, Givi Targamadze and David Zurabishvili, Bokeria co-founded Liberty Institute, a Georgian non-profit, non-partisan, liberal public policy advocacy foundation, taking the job of coordinating human rights programs and later the position of senior legal advisor.

Goldman School

Goldman School of Public Policy, a public policy school at the University of California, Berkeley.

Harris School of Public Policy Studies

Tomas J. Philipson - Daniel Levin Professor of Public Policy Studies, Harris School; Associate Faculty Member, Department of Economics

Israel Center for Social and Economic Progress

The Israel Center for Social and Economic Progress is an independent pro-market public policy thinktank founded in 1983 by Daniel Doron to promote basic structural reform in Israel's economy.

IZA Prize in Labor Economics

Current members of the committee besides Akerlof and Zimmermann are: Marco Caliendo (IZA Director of Research), Richard Portes (Professor of Economics at the London Business School and President of the CEPR), and Jan Svejnar (Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan).

James Kotecki

James Kotecki now does public policy research and analysis for The Cypress Group.

JCPS

Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a national nonprofit American research and public policy institution

Joe Stroud

Stroud was at the time of his death a Professor at Albion College and Director of the Ford Institute of Public Policy at Albion College.

Lance Liebman

They have two sons, Benjamin L. Liebman, the Robert L. Lieff Professor of Law and the director of the Center for Chinese Legal Studies, and Jeffrey B. Liebman who is a professor of public policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and currently served as an economic advisor to Barack Obama's presidential campaign.

Layli Miller-Muro

Layli Miller-Muro is the Executive Director of the Tahirih Justice Center, a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting women from human rights abuses through the provision of legal aid and public policy advocacy.

Leonis C. Malburg

As mayor, Malburg has been credited with overseeing the successful implementation of public policy that led the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation to name Vernon the "Most Business-friendly City" in L.A. County.

Lloyd Morrisett

Morrisett was also a board member of RAND (a research institute dealing with domestic public policy and national security issues) for thirty years and Chairman of the Board for nine years, 1986-1995.

Loveland Chamber of Commerce

As a founding member of the Northern Colorado Legislative Alliance (NCLA), a joint public policy organization developed in conjunction with the Fort Collins & Greeley Chambers of Commerce, and the Northern Colorado Economic Development Corporation (NCEDC).

Ludmyrna Lopez

Ludmyrna holds a Masters of Science in Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University, and a BA from California State University, Hayward.

Mainstreaming

Gender mainstreaming, the practice of considering impacts on men and women of proposed public policy

Michael P. Howlett

He was editor of the POLCAN listserver (1995–1997) and English language co-editor of the Canadian Journal of Political Science (2002–2006) and is currently administrative editor of the Canadian Political Science Review (2007–2010), and co-editor of the World Political Science Review, the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis (Book Review Editor 2001-2006), and the University of Toronto Press Series in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy.

Momodu Maligie

Maligi has a Bachelor Degree in Government and International Relations from Lawrence University in Wisconsin in the United States and a Masters digree in International Commerce and Public Policy from Valparaiso University in Indiana, USA.

National Abortion Federation

NAF launched a Canadian Public Policy and Outreach Program on May 16, 2006 with the support of Senator Lucie Pépin, Federal MP and former Minister of State for Health Carolyn Bennett and NDP Status of Women Critic Irene Mathyssen.

Paul Simon Public Policy Institute

Paul Simon lived for many years in the small town of Makanda, south of Carbondale, where he was a professor and director of the SIU Public Policy Institute.

Peter D. Hart

Hart is frequently invited to major television programs, such as Meet the Press, The Today Show, and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, to discuss public policy issues.

Population Council

The Population Council also publishes the journals Population and Development Review, which reports scientific research on the interrelationships between population and socioeconomic development and provides a forum for discussion of related issues of public policy, and Studies in Family Planning, which focuses on public health, social science, and biomedical research on sexual and reproductive health, fertility, and family planning.

Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan

The Center has become increasingly interdisciplinary over time, drawing faculty from Anthropology, Economics, Geography, Natural Resources, Political Science, Psychology, Public Health, Public Policy, Social Work, Sociology, and Statistics.

Ralph Cavanagh

Cavanagh has won multiple awards, including the Heinz Award for Public Policy, the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners’ Mary Kilmarx Award, the Yale Law School’s Preiskel-Silverman Fellowship, the NW Energy Coalition’s Headwaters Award, and the Bonneville Power Administration’s Award for Exceptional Public Service.

Re Drummond Wren

He cited the recent signing of the United Nations Charter by the United Nations, to which Canada was a signatory, as a determining factor for public policy.

ResPublica

ResPublica (from the Latin phrase, res publica meaning 'public thing') is a British independent public policy think tank, founded in 2009 by Phillip Blond.

Robert Costanza

Robert Costanza (born September 14, 1950) is a leading ecological economist and Professor of Public Policy at the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University.

Smith–Lever Act of 1914

The Smith–Lever Act of 1914 is a United States federal law that established a system of cooperative extension services, connected to the land-grant universities, in order to inform people about current developments in agriculture, home economics, public policy/government, leadership, 4-H, economic development, coastal issues (National Sea Grant College Program), and many other related subjects.

Stacey Abrams

She graduated from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin with a Masters of Public Affairs in public policy.

Terri L. White

In 2007, while White was serving as the Department's Director of Communications and Public Policy, then Commissioner Terry Cline resigned after being nominated by (then) President of the United States George W. Bush to become the administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, an agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

Tomás Fabregas

That same year he joined the San Francisco AIDS Foundation as a volunteer and was placed in the organization's Public Policy Department.

WPWC

On September 16, 2012, WPWC started producing "Pivot Point with Maya Rockeymoore," a live public affairs radio show dedicated to aging issues and their intersection with politics, public policy, and popular culture.