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policy-making

policy-making

7 4.5
Concerned with making rules and plans for a government or organization
  • adjective
  • /ˈpɑlɪsiˌmeɪkɪŋ/
translation icon : formulación de políticas
  • Think tanks and the research they produce have a strong influence on the policy-making process.
  • educational policy-making
  • policy-making process
  • economic policy-making

Examples

  • The research shows that foreign economic policy-making must be understood as an inherently political process.

    Academic text (1993)
  • And one of the things you have to do is involve your legislators in policy making from the beginning.

  • And he got to take part in policy making at the highest levels.

  • But when it involved policy making or politics, they said hands off.

  • Argentina, despite its creative policy making, has all the inputs that it needs to be successful, should it so choose.

  • So therefore there is this important effort to make sure that we have a much more inclusive process of policy making and and implementing.

  • You might be forgiven that this was some sort of accidental failure of policy making, but the truth is it's much worse than this.

  • And I think both those elements enter into policy making judgements.

  • Well, you know, policy making is about identifying and addressing risks.

  • Effective policy-making requires input from various stakeholders to ensure all voices are heard.

How Policy-Making

policy-making
7 4.5
implementation
149 3.8
administrative
180 4.6

Surface Forms

policy-making positive

Morphology

policy-making = policy + making (transparent) = policy + making

The compound directly combines 'policy' (a plan or principle) and 'making' (the act of creating), yielding the process of formulating policies.

Etymology

Policy-making starts with policy, which came from old words meaning 'public order' or 'how a community is run' and is related to the familiar word politics. So policy-making is the work of making the rules and plans that decide how things are run.