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Note: Public Policy: The Implementation Gap
Author(s) -
Viqar Ahmed Mr.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
˜the œlahore journal of economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1811-5446
pISSN - 1811-5438
DOI - 10.35536/lje.1997.v2.i2.a9
Subject(s) - democracy , government (linguistics) , power (physics) , permission , public policy , feeling , process (computing) , law and economics , economics , public administration , business , law , political science , politics , computer science , psychology , social psychology , philosophy , linguistics , physics , quantum mechanics , operating system
Policy formulation and implementation are the chief, though not theonly, business of a modern government, implying exercise of its power. In ademocracy the people themselves grant permission to the government toexercise power in their name. Thus through the democratic process power istransformed into legitimate authority. However, there is a feeling that apolicy, formulated through due procedures at the highest echelons of thegovernment, is sometimes not implemented in the same spirit or in thesame way as was originally intended by the policy makers. Thus there Ifneed to locate and identify the points where such lapses take place.

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