RIPPLES AND TRICKLES: IMPACT ASSESSMENT AND POLICY ANALYSIS IN ASIA |
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| Authors: | Bruce Koppel |
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| Affiliation: | Research Associate at the East-West Center. He received his Ph.D. in rural sociology from Cornell University. He has pub- lished and consulted widely on issues of rural development, planning, and impact assessment in Asia. He is currently leading a research program on the transformation of rural Asia. |
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| Abstract: | Advocacy of impact assessment has exceeded documentation of the un- even influence of impact assessment information on policy analysis. Start- ing with a simple distinction between pluralist and hierarchical policy systems, an analysis is presented of relations between impact assessment and policy processes in Asia, with special emphasis on the Philippines. Conclusions are drawn about the political significance of impact assessment information in different policy contexts. |
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