Studying public policy : policy cycles and policy subsystems

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Title:

Author:

Howlett, Michael, 1955-

ISBN:

9780195417944

Personal Author:

Howlett, Michael, 1955-

Publication Information:

Toronto ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

Physical Description:

v, 311 pages ; 23 cm

General Note:

ODL_2017/2018.

Contents:

Policy science and policy cycles -- Approaches to public policy -- Policy actors and institutions -- Policy instruments -- Agenda-setting : policy determinants, policy ideas, and policy windows -- Policy formulations : policy communities and policy networks -- Public policy decision-making : beyond rationalism and incrementalism -- Policy implementation : policy design and implementation styles -- Policy evaluation : policy analysis and policy learning -- Policy regimes and policy dynamics -- Afterword: Still studying public policy.

Abstract:

"Bringing together theoretical and empirical studies, the authors' inductive theory of public policy-making will be of interest not only to students and academic specialists but to anyone active in the public policy process."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject Term:

Policy sciences.

Added Author:

Ramesh, M., 1960-

Electronic Access:

Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0615/2003272875-d.html

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Studying Public Policy develops an analytical framework for its subject for use by students in public policy courses. Instead of focussing on substantive policy issues in particular policy areas, this book examines the theoretical and conceptual foundations of, and approaches used, in the policy sciences. Divided into four parts. Part 1 outlines the scope and parameters of the policy studies field and the philosophical basis of theories most common in the discipline; Part 2 discusses the actors, institutions, and instruments found in public policy communities; Part 3 focuses on the policy process itself and how public policy is made; Part 4 examines the phenomena of policy change.