Studying Public Policy: Policy Cycles and Policy Subsystems

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Oxford University Press, 1995 - Policy sciences - 239 pages
Studies of public policymaking all to often apply general assumptions about political life to specific case studies. In Studying Public Policy, Michael Howlett and M. Ramesh argue that this approach does not do justice to the wealth of empirical studies pointing to a different set of factors
responsible for general patterns of policymaking.

Following a discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of the existing approaches, the authors inventory current British, American and Canadian literature on policy actors, institutions, and instruments, and derive from that inventory the elements of an inductive, middle-range theory of public
policymaking. The model developed in the book not only helps to unify theoretical and empirical studies, but identifies critical elements of the process of policy change of interest not only to specialists but also to practitioners in the field.

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About the author (1995)


Michael Howlett is Associate Professor, Political Science, Simon Fraser University. He is co-author with M. Ramesh of The Political Economy of Canada: An Introduction (1992), and co-editor of K. Brownsey and Michael Howlett, The Provincial State (1992) and Michael Howlett and D. Laycock, The
Puzzles of Power (1994). M. Ramesh, co-author with Michael Howlett of The Political Economy of Canada (1992), is Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at University of New England (Australia), and Visiting Professor and Chair of Public Policy, Department of Political Science, University of Western
Ontario.

Bibliographic information

TitleStudying Public Policy: Policy Cycles and Policy Subsystems
AuthorsMichael Howlett, M. Ramesh
Edition3, illustrated, reprint
PublisherOxford University Press, 1995
ISBN0195409760, 9780195409765
Length239 pages
  
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