The public policy process
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The public policy process
Routledge, 2017
7th ed
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Previous ed.: Pearson Education, 2013
Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-395) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Public Policy Process is essential reading for anyone trying to understand the process by which public policy is made. Explaining clearly the importance of the relationship between theoretical and practical aspects of policy-making, the book gives a thorough overview of the people and organisations involved in the process.
Fully revised and updated for a 7th edition, The Public Policy Process provides:
Clear exploration, using many illustrations, of how policy is made and implemented.
A new chapter on comparative theory and methods.
New material on studying advocacy coalitions, policy changes, governance, and evaluation.
More European and international examples.
This edition appears at a time when its concern to emphasise the complex implications of modern 'governance', and the way in which the ultimate outcome of a new policy initiative will depend on policy formulation and implementation processes, is particularly relevant to the UK government's efforts to leave the European Union.
Table of Contents
Part I: Policy Theories
1. Studying the Policy Process
2. Theories of power and the policy process
3. Rational choice theory
4. From pluralism to networks
5. Institutional theory
6. Comparative Policy Process Studies
7. Integrating theoretical approaches
Part II: Analysis of the Policy Process
8. Policy and politics
9. Agenda setting
10. Policy formulation
11. Implementation: an overview
12. Bureaucracy: organisational structures and processes
13. The policy process at the street level
14. The policy process in the age of governance
15. Conclusion: evaluation and accountability
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