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Preface | |
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Introduction | |
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Meta Analysis | |
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'Public' and 'policy' as concepts | |
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The development of the policy approach | |
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Kinds of policy analysts and policy analysis | |
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Varieties of analytical frameworks | |
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Philosophical frameworks | |
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Analysis and the policy process | |
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Models, maps and metaphors | |
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Paradigms lost and found: shifts in the focus and frameworks of policy analysis | |
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Stages and cycles: mapping the policy process | |
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The arrangement of Parts Two, Three and Four | |
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Meso Analysis | |
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Social problem approaches | |
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Public opinion and public policy | |
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Theories of agenda control | |
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Typologies of policy issues | |
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Pluralism, non-decision-making and the third dimension of power | |
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Neo-Marxist and critical approaches | |
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Knowledge and the policy agenda | |
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Policies and problems as symbols | |
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Networks, streams, advocacy coalitions and punctuated equilibrium | |
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Analysing the boundaries | |
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Globalization and policy-making: the international parameters | |
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Decision Analysis | |
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Decision-making: frameworks and disciplinary contexts | |
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Power approaches to decision-making | |
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Rationality and decision-making | |
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The public choice approach to decision-making | |
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Institutional approaches | |
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Personality, cognition and information processing in decision-making | |
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Policy analysis and public decisions | |
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Rational decision-making and the quest for knowledgeable governance | |
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Critiques of policy analysis | |
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Delivery Analysis | |
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The arrangement of Part Four | |
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Implementation | |
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Delivery systems | |
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Evaluation | |
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Change and continuity in policy-making | |
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Promise and performance: evaluating impact and outcomes | |
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Conclusion: Beyond delivery and towards democratization | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |