Studying Public Policy Policy Cycles and Policy Subsystems

Name: Studying Public Policy Policy Cycles and Policy Subsystems
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ISBN: 9780195417944

ISBN-10: 0195417941

ISBN-13: 9780195417944

Edition: 2nd 2003 (Revised)

Authors: Michael Howlett, M. Ramesh

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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.

Book details

List price: $65.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/5/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 321
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English

Michael Howlett is Burnaby Mountain Professor in the Department of Political Science at Simon Fraser University.




Introduction



Policy Science and Political Science



Approaches to Public Policy



Actors, Institutions, and Instruments



Actors and Institutions - Assessing the Policy Capabilities of States



Policy Instruments



The Public Policy Process



Agenda Setting - Policy Determinants and Policy Windows



Policy Formulation - Policy Communities and Policy Networks



Public Policy Decision-Making - Beyond Rationalism, Incrementalism, and Irrationalism



Policy Implementation - Policy Design and the Choice of Policy Instrument



Policy Evaluation - Policy Analysis and Policy Learning



Conclusion



Policy Styles, Policy Paradigms and the Policy Cycle



Afterword - Still Studying Public Policy