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| List of figures | |
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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 | |