Studying Public Policy: Policy Cycles and Policy Subsystems

Michael Howlett; M Ramesh; Anthony Perl

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0195428021 ISBN 13: 9780195428025

Casa editrice: OUP Canada, 2009

Studying Publisc Policy develops an analytical framework of the subject for students in public policy course. Instead of focussing on the substantive policy of a particular policy area, the book examines the theoretical and conceptual foundations of, and approaches used in, the policy sciences.

L'autore:

Michael Howlett is Burnaby Mountain Chair and Professor of Political Science at Simon Fraser University.

M. Ramesh is an Associate Professor at the Lew Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore.

Anthony Perl is a Professor and the Director of the Urban Studies Program at Simon Fraser University.

Contenuti:

• Acknowledgements
• 1: Introduction: Why Study Public Policy?
• 2: Understanding Public Policy: Theoretical Approaches
• 3: The Policy Context
• 4: Agenda-Setting
• 5: Policy Formulation: Policy Instruments and Policy Design
• 6: Public Policy Decision-Making
• 7: Policy Implementation
• 8: Policy Evaluation: Policy-Making as Policy Learning
• 9: Patterns of Policy Change
• Bibliography
• Index