Routledge handbook of public policy

Table of Content:

PART I: Introduction to the study of the public policy process: history and method
1. Public policy debate and the rise of policy analysis 2. The policy-making process 3. Comparative approaches to the study of public policy-making, Sophie Schmitt
4. International dimensions and dynamics of policy-making, PART II: Conceptualizing public policy-making
5. State theory and the rise of the regulatory state
6. The public choice perspective,
7. Institutional analysis and political economy
8. Postpositivism and the policy process

PART III: Modelling the policy process: frameworks for analysis
9 The institutional analysis and development framework
10. The advocacy coalition framework: coalitions, learning and policy change 11. The punctuated equilibrium theory of agenda-setting and policy change
12. Policy network models
PART IV: Understanding the agenda-setting process
13. Policy agenda-setting studies: attention, politics and the public
14. Focusing events and policy windows
15. Agenda-setting and political discourse: major analytical frameworks and their application, 16. Mass media and policy-making

PART V: Understanding the formulation process
17. Policy design and transfer
18. Epistemic communities
19 Policy appraisal
20. Policy analytical styles

PART VI: Understanding the decision-making process
21. Bounded rationality and public policy decision-making
22. Incrementalism
23. Models for research into decision-making processes: on phases, streams, rounds and tracks of decision-making
24. The garbage can model and the study of the policy-making process

PART VII: Understanding the implementation process
25. Bureaucracy and the policy process
26. Disagreement and alternative dispute resolution in the policy process, Boyd Fuller
27. Governance, networks and intergovernmental systems
28. Development management and policy implementation: relevance beyond the global South

PART VIII: Understanding the evaluation process
29. Six models of evaluation
30. Policy feedback and learning
31. Randomized control trials: what are they, why are they promoted as the gold standard for casual identification and what can they (not) tell us
32. Policy evaluation and public participation

PART IX: Policy dynamics: patterns of stability and change
33. Policy dynamics and change: the never-ending puzzle
34. Policy trajectories and legacies: path dependency revisited
35. Process sequencing
36. Learning from success and failure?

This Handbook provides a comprehensive global survey of the policy process. Written by an outstanding line up of distinguished scholars and practitioners, the Handbook covers all aspects of the policy process including:
Theory – from rational choice to the new institutionalism
Frameworks – network theory, advocacy coalition and development models
Key stages in the process – Formulation, implementation and evaluation
Agenda setting and decision making
The roles of key actors and institutions
This is an invaluable resource for all scholars, graduate students and practitioners in public policy and policy analysis.

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