PUBLIC POLICY Definition & Meaning

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public policy

[ puhb-lik pol-uh-see ]

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noun

1. the body of laws and other measures that affect the general public:
  These officeholders are creating public policy on important issues including affordable housing and the environment.
2. the underlying principles, values, or objectives that inform these laws and other measures: In a secular state, no religion can become the basis of public policy.
  The Institute participates in shaping public debate and public policy through inquiry and dialogue.
  In a secular state, no religion can become the basis of public policy.
Law. the principle that injury to the public good or public order constitutes a basis for declaring an act or transaction illegal or invalid:
The principle of public policy requires that we judge the tendency of the contract at the time when it was entered into.

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of public policy¹

First recorded in 1775–85

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But Pew Charitable Trusts, a public policy organisation, says this method can also "enable bad actors to obscure or manipulate data" around the shipping events.

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Some of the greatest harm will come from reducing efforts to maintain safe air quality, such as rolling back standards for smog, soot, mercury and other harmful pollutants, according to a separate report released this week by the progressive public policy research group the Center for American Progress.

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Within the last nine months the charity has recruited a CEO, two public policy managers, a head of communications and a fundraising manager.

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In it Ms Wynn-Williams, who used to be the company's global public policy director, makes a series of critical claims about what she witnessed during her seven years at Facebook.

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Robert Reich, who served as Clinton’s Labor secretary and is now a professor of public policy at UC Berkeley, wrote a heartfelt valedictory to Simpson honoring him as a “very dear” friend and relating how much they discovered they had in common despite occupying “the opposite extremes of Washington.”

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