McHale / Hughes / Grundy Evaluating Transnational Programs in Government and Business

Pergamon Policy Studies on Socio-Economic Development
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4831-5250-9
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Web PDF

Evaluating Transnational Programs in Government and Business is a collection of papers presented at a symposium entitled ''Evaluating Transnational Programs,'' conducted at Case Western Reserve University during the 1977-1978 academic year. The symposium was organized to address the various issues and controversies surrounding adequate methods for effective policy evaluation and assessment at the transnational level. The book explores the conceptual, methodological, bureaucratic, political, and organizational factors that hinder sound evaluation of government and private programs with transnational implications. This monograph consists of 11 chapters and opens with an introduction to methodological issues in the transnational field. It then reviews the development of various world modeling activities and compares them from the standpoints of characteristics, structure, methodological underpinnings, applications, and criticisms. The World Integrated Model is used to assess United States policy options regarding agricultural exports and oil imports by placing them in a broader transnational context. The following chapters focus on various problems in the evaluation of U.S. foreign economic policies, including foreign trade and investment policies. The criteria used by development banks in the processing of loan requests are also considered, along with non-economic objectives in economic development assistance programs; the role of multinational corporations as agents of technology transfer and their effects on changing U.S. policies regarding foreign investment. The final chapter deals with the growing need for transnational appraisal of the impacts of institutions on basic human values. This book will be of interest to business and government officials as well as social and political scientists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McHale, Vincent E.

Hughes, Barry B.

Grundy, Kenneth W.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front Cover ;1
2;Evaluating Transnational Programs in Government and Business;4
3;Copyright Page;5
4;Table of Contents;6
5;Preface;10
6;List of Figures and Tables;12
7;Chapter 1. Introduction: Policy Evaluation from aTransnational Perspective;14
7.1;REFERENCES;25
8;Chapter 2. World Model Comparison and Evaluation:Policy Analysis and Other Uses
;27
8.1;COMPARISON OF THE MODELS;27
8.2;STRUCTURE(7)
;29
8.3;METHODOLOGY;33
8.4;APPLICATIONS;37
8.5;CRITICISMS;46
8.6;REFERENCES;52
9;Chapter 3. Global and Domestic Interactions in the Evaluation of United States Food Policies: The Bushel/ Barrel Dilemma
;56
9.1;DESCRIBING THE SITUATION;56
9.2;THE BUSHEL/BARREL, SOIL/OIL DILEMMA;58
9.3;REFERENCES;73
10;Chapter 4. Employing a Policy Engineering Approach in Organizational Design: The Case of an International Energy Organization
;75
10.1;APPROACHES TO POLICY ANALYSIS;77
10.2;SCOPE CONDITIONS OF POLICY ENGINEERING;82
10.3;POLICY ENGINEERING BACKGROUND AND DEFINITIONS;84
10.4;APPLYING POLICY ENGINEERING TO ENERGY INNOVATION;88
10.5;POLICY ENGINEERING VERSUS NETWORKING AND SINGLE ORGANIZATION ANALYSIS
;92
10.6;NOTES;95
10.7;REFERENCES;95
11;Chapter 5. Evaluating U.S. PoliciesToward International Trade and Investment;97
11.1;THE TRANSNATIONAL DILEMMA;97
11.2;PRESCRIPTIONS FOR TRANSNATIONAL COOPERATIONS;98
11.3;TRANSNATIONAL INFLUENCES ON U.S. FOREIGN ECONOMIC POLICY
;99
11.4;THE EVOLVING NATURE OF TRANSNATIONAL RELATIONS;102
11.5;THE NEED FOR POLICY EVALUATION FROM A TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
;103
11.6;CONGRESSIONAL RESISTANCE TO POLICYEXPERIMENTATION AND EVALUATION;104
11.7;A NEW APPROACH TO POLICY EVALUATION FOR THE CONGRESS
;105
11.8;CONGRESS AND TRANSGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS;106
11.9;THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH'S ROLE IN TRANSNATIONAL EDUCATION
;108
11.10;DISSOLVING THE DILEMMA;109
11.11;NOTES;110
11.12;REFERENCES;110
12;Chapter 6. Determining Investment Choices in Developing Countries: The Use of Social, Political, and Economic Criteria in Project Evalution
;113
12.1;ECONOMIC CRITERIA: THE OVERVIEW;113
12.2;THE BASIC ISSUES;114
12.3;SOCIOECONOMIC EVALUATION OF PROJECTS;119
12.4;LIMITATIONS OF COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS;125
12.5;MULTIPLE OBJECTIVES;126
12.6;EXTENSIONS OF THE SOCIOECONOMIC APPROACH BEYOND THE NATION-STATE
;129
12.7;INSTITUTIONAL ASSUMPTIONS OF PROJECT EVALUATION METHODOLOGY
;130
12.8;THE PREPARATION OF PROJECT EVALUATION MANUALS AND GUIDELINES
;131
12.9;THE IMPLEMENTATION OF COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS;132
12.10;THE GUIDELINES AND LITTLE-MIRRLEES ALTERNATIVES TO SOCIOECONOMIC PROJECT EVALUATION
;133
12.11;SECTOR STUDIES;135
12.12;NOTES;137
12.13;REFERENCES;138
13;Chapter 7. Multinationals as Agents of Technology Transfer: Goals,Modes and Results;140
13.1;MNCs AND THE MODES OF TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;140
13.2;MULTIPLE GOALS AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;146
13.3;REFERENCES;154
14;Chapter 8.Evaluating Arms Control and Disarmament Negotiations;156
14.1;THE PROBLEM OF ATTAINING AGREEMENTS ON ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT
;156
14.2;THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS:THE REQUIREMENTS FOR ATTAINING ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT AGREEMENTS
;158
14.3;A METHODOLOGY FOR EVALUATING ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT NEGOTIATIONS
;169
14.4;REFERENCES;177
15;Chapter 9. Evaluating the Impact of U.S. Policies and Practices on the Development of Crime Control Exports
;179
15.1;CRIME CONTROL TECHNOLOGIES;180
15.2;POLICY DEVELOPMENTS AFFECTING U.S. CRIME EXPORTS
;181
15.3;REGULATION OF CRIME CONTROL EXPORTS:THE PRESENT-DAY SITUATION;191
15.4;EVALUATING TRANSNATIONAL RELATIONS IN THE CASE OF CRIME CONTROL EXPORTS
;194
15.5;UNITED STATES CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, BUREAU OF TRADE APPENDIX 9. A: EXPORT ADMINISTRATION REGULATIONS (376.14)CRIME CONTROL AND DETECTION COMMODITIES
;196
15.6;NOTES;196
15.7;REFERENCES;197
16;Chapter 10. International Science and International Policy: The Pugwash Conferences
;199
16.1;THE SEEDS OF A TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVEON SCIENCE POLICY;199
16.2;THE INCEPTION OF THE PUGWASH CONFERENCES:GOALS AND ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE;204
16.3;CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS: A SCIENTIFIC ORIENTATION;211
16.4;PUGWASH EFFORTS TO JOIN SCIENCE AND GOVERNMENT;216
16.5;REFERENCES;220
17;Chapter 11. Toward Realizing Human Dignity: Evaluating Institutional Impacts on Basic Human Values
;222
17.1;DEFINITIONS OF TERMS;222
17.2;ILLUSTRATIVE APPRAISAL ACTIVITIES;226
17.3;SOME POSSIBLE NEXT STEPS;231
17.4;REFERENCES;236
18;Name Index;240
19;Subject Index;245
20;About the Contributors;261