Policy Learning Processes in International Committees

Characterizing International Policy Learning

Learning Processes in International Accountability Mechanisms

Citizen engagement at the international level has experienced a dramatic growth rate in the last decade. This article will explore some of the roots of that development – whether social, technological, or political – but focus primarily on how a highly diffuse process of growth has, in fact, developed feedback mechanisms among citizens and institutions to accelerate the growth in effectiveness ...

Pursuing International Competitiveness in Iranian Wheat Policy

After the war with Iraq which ended in 1988, Iran implemented several agricultural support policies based on Five-Year National Development Plans. The main objective of these plans in the agriculture sector was to make the agricultural economy more market-oriented and to encourage sustainable agriculture. This paper investigates the extent to which Iran's government has been able to achieve thi...

On Learning Decision Committees

additive fashion, like in MYCIN-type expert systems (Shortliffe [Sh076]). The main idea is to allow the abThis paper presents decision committees. A sence of an~ underlying ~rdering. in the .decision .p.rodecision committee contains rules, each of cedure (unlIke t~e orderIng .of lIter~l.s m.a decIsIon these beeing a couple (monomial, vector). tree, or the orderIng of. rules m a decIsIon lIst), ...

IT Governance in Action: Committees and Processes

©2008 EDUCAUSE. Reproduction by permission only. There’s an old saying that a camel is a horse designed by a committee. That may be, but it’s just as appropriate to say that committees are the workhorses of higher education. As we report in this chapter, they play a conspicuous role in IT governance as they do in so many other areas of institutional life. Committees are not, however, the only s...