Targeted Universalism: Policy & Practice
W Ake, S Menendian - 2019 - escholarship.org
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Targeted Universalism: Policy & Practice provides a roadmap to design policy that can serve
groups otherwise excluded, while also promising to improve outcomes for people situated in
relatively privileged positions. This is accomplished by re-imagining the range of
implementation strategies needed to accomplish the universal goal. The targeted
universalism framework was developed by Haas Institute Director john a. powell as a
response to the constraints of the two dominant approaches in policy thinking: the targeted …
groups otherwise excluded, while also promising to improve outcomes for people situated in
relatively privileged positions. This is accomplished by re-imagining the range of
implementation strategies needed to accomplish the universal goal. The targeted
universalism framework was developed by Haas Institute Director john a. powell as a
response to the constraints of the two dominant approaches in policy thinking: the targeted …
Targeted Universalism: Policy & Practice provides a roadmap to design policy that can serve groups otherwise excluded, while also promising to improve outcomes for people situated in relatively privileged positions. This is accomplished by re-imagining the range of implementation strategies needed to accomplish the universal goal. The targeted universalism framework was developed by Haas Institute Director john a. powell as a response to the constraints of the two dominant approaches in policy thinking: the targeted approach, and the universal approach. Targeted universalism borrows the strengths and avoids the weaknesses of both targeted and universal approaches. Yet, it is also categorically distinct in both conception and execution.
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