The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy, Volume 3Michael Moran, Martin Rein, Robert E. Goodin Public policy is the business end of political science. It is where theory meets practice in the pursuit of the public good. Political scientists approach public policy in myriad ways. Some approach the policy process descriptively, asking how the need for public intervention comes to be perceived, a policy response formulated, enacted, implemented, and, all too often, subverted, perverted, altered, or abandoned. Others approach public policy more prescriptively, offering politically-informed suggestions for how normatively valued goals can and should be pursued, either through particular policies or through alternative processes for making policy. Some offer their advice from the Olympian heights of detached academic observers, others as 'engaged scholars' cum advocates, while still others seek to instill more reflective attitudes among policy practitioners themselves toward their own practices. The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy mines all these traditions, using an innovative structure that responds to the very latest scholarship. Its chapters touch upon institutional and historical sources and analytical methods, how policy is made, how it is evaluated and how it is constrained. In these ways, the Handbook shows how the combined wisdom of political science as a whole can be brought to bear on political attempts to improve the human condition. |
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... Regulatory Regimes 651 COLIN SCOTT 33. Democratizing the Policy Process 669 ARCHON FUNG PART VIII COMMENDING AND EVALUATING PUBLIC POLICIES 34. The Logic of Appropriateness JAMES G. MARCH & JOHAN P. OLSEN 35. Ethical Dimensions of ...
... Regulatory Regimes 651 COLIN SCOTT 33. Democratizing the Policy Process 669 ARCHON FUNG PART VIII COMMENDING AND EVALUATING PUBLIC POLICIES 34. The Logic of Appropriateness JAMES G. MARCH & JOHAN P. OLSEN 35. Ethical Dimensions of ...
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Contents
The Public and its Policies | 3 |
INSTITUTIONAL AND HISTORICAL | 37 |
Training for Policy Makers | 80 |
Policy Analysis as Puzzle Solving | 109 |
Policy Analysis as Critical Listening | 124 |
Policy Analysis as Policy Advice | 152 |
Policy Analysis for Democracy | 169 |
Policy Analysis as Critique | 190 |
PublicPrivate Collaboration | 496 |
Economic Constraints on Public Policy | 529 |
Interests and Power | 543 |
Institutional Constraints on Policy | 557 |
Constraining and Enabling | 572 |
Globalization and Public Policy | 587 |
STYLES | 605 |
Market and NonMarket Failures | 624 |
The Origins of Policy | 207 |
Agenda Setting | 228 |
Ordering through Discourse | 251 |
Arguing Bargaining and Getting Agreement | 269 |
Policy Impact | 296 |
The Politics of Policy Evaluation | 319 |
Policy Dynamics | 336 |
Learning in Public Policy | 367 |
Reframing Problematic Policies | 389 |
Policy in Practice | 409 |
Policy Network Analysis | 425 |
Smart Policy? | 448 |
The Tools of Government in the Information Age | 469 |
Policy Analysis as Organizational Analysis | 482 |
Privatization and Regulatory Regimes | 651 |
Democratizing the Policy Process | 669 |
COMMENDING AND EVALUATING | 687 |
Ethical Dimensions of Public Policy | 709 |
Economic Techniques | 729 |
Economism and its Limits | 746 |
Social Experimentation for Public Policy | 806 |
PUBLIC POLICY OLD AND | 831 |
A Plea for Comparative | 844 |
The US Case | 858 |
Reflections on How Political Scientists and Others | 874 |
Putting it Together Again | 892 |
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