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Studying Public Policy Principles and Processes

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Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

17.03.2020

Verlag

Oxford University Press, Canada

Seitenzahl

416

Maße (L/B/H)

22,7/15,6/2,2 cm

Gewicht

583 g

Auflage

4 Revised edition

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-19-902614-2

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

17.03.2020

Verlag

Oxford University Press, Canada

Seitenzahl

416

Maße (L/B/H)

22,7/15,6/2,2 cm

Gewicht

583 g

Auflage

4 Revised edition

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-19-902614-2

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Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: Studying Public Policy

    • Acknowledgments
    • Part I - Methodology, Theory, and Context in Public Policy Research
    • Chapter 1 Studying Public Policy: Why and How
    • Public Policy Defined
    • Methodological Considerations for Studying Public Policy
    • The Policy Cycle Framework: A Problem-Solving Model of the Policy Process
    • The Need for Public Policy Capacity
    • Identifying and Studying Policy Styles and Policy Regimes
    • Overview of the Book
    • Study Questions
    • Further Readings
    • Chapter 2 Understanding Public Policy: Theoretical Approaches
    • Evolution of the Policy Sciences
    • Approaches to Public Policy Analysis: Positivism and Post-Positivism Revisited
    • Positivist Approaches to Policy Analysis
    • Post-Positivist Approaches to Policy Analysis
    • Reconciling the Positivist and Post-Positivist Approaches
    • Approaches to Public Policy Studies: Multi-Level, Multi-Disciplinary
    • Public Choice
    • Class Analysis
    • Pluralism
    • Corporatism
    • Neo-institutionalism
    • Statism
    • Conclusion
    • Study Questions
    • Further Readings
    • Chapter 3 The Policy Context: States and Societies
    • Institutions, Ideas, and Actors in Public Policy
    • The Role of Policy Ideas: Paradigms, Public Sentiments, Symbolic Frames, and Program Ideas
    • The Political-Economic Context
    • Capitalism
    • Liberalism
    • Democracy
    • Policy-Making in the Liberal-Democratic Capitalist State
    • Political-Economic Structures and Public Policy-Making
    • Political Systems and Public Policy
    • Domestic Policy Actors
    • The International System and Public Policy
    • Policy Subsystems and Policy Regimes: Integrating Institutions, Ideas, and Actors
    • Policy Subsystems
    • Conclusion
    • Study Questions
    • Further Readings
    • Part II - The Five Stages of the Policy Cycle
    • Chapter 4 Agenda-Setting: Definition and Problematics
    • What Is Agenda-Setting?
    • Issue Initiation
    • Issue Expansion
    • Agenda-Entrance
    • The Problematics of Agenda-Setting: Issue-Attention Dynamics
    • Issue-Attention in Governments and Society
    • Problems versus Conditions
    • Problem Tractability
    • Other Dilemmas of Policy Problems
    • The Substance of Agenda-Setting: Problem Construction
    • Objective Construction: Convergence Theory and Political Business Cycles
    • Subjective Construction: Ideas and Discourses
    • Gauging Problem Severity: Indicators and Measures
    • Actors and Tasks in Agenda-Setting
    • Epistemic Communities
    • Instrument Constituencies
    • Advocacy Coalitions
    • Policy Entrepreneurs and Policy Brokers
    • Theories of Agenda-Setting: Ideas, Actors, and Structures
    • Funnels of Causality
    • Modes of Agenda-Setting
    • The Multiple Streams Model and Its Evolution
    • Conclusion: A Policy Subsystem Conception of Agenda-Setting
    • Study Questions
    • Further Readings
    • Chapter 5 Policy Formulation: Identifying and Assessing Policy Alternatives
    • What Is Policy Formulation?
    • The Problematics of Policy Formulation
    • Procedural and Substantive Capacity Limits
    • Context in Policy Formulation: Design and Non-Design Orientations
    • The Substance of Policy Formulation: Selecting Policy Tools
    • Nodality, or Information-Based Policy Tools
    • Authority-Based Policy Tools
    • Treasure-Based Policy Tools
    • Organization-Based Policy Tools
    • The Formulation Challenge: Mixing and Bundling Policy Tools
    • Actors in Policy Formulation
    • Policy Advisors and Policy Advisory Systems
    • Instrument Constituencies
    • Modelling Policy Formulation
    • Conclusion: Policy Formulation - Opening up the Black Box
    • Study Questions
    • Further Readings
    • Chapter 6 Decision-Making in Public Policy: Policy Selection and Choice
    • What Is Decision-Making in the Public Sector?
    • Problematics of Decision-Making: An Unknown Future and Risks of Failure
    • Over- and Under-Reactions
    • Uncertainty, Ambiguity, Ignorance, and Incompetence
    • The Substance of Decision-Making: Seeking Advice and Evidence about Policy Choices
    • Policy Analysis
    • Evidence-Based Decision-Making
    • The Nature of Policy Choices: Negative, Positive, and Non-Decisions
    • Actors in the Decision-Making Process
    • Executive, Legislators, Judges, and Administrative Officials
    • Policy Networks
    • Theories of Decision-Making
    • Early Rational and Incremental Models
    • The Comprehensive and Bounded-Rationality Models
    • Incremental Model
    • Mixed-Scanning Models
    • Garbage Can Models
    • "Decision Accretion" Model
    • Conclusion: Revisiting Public Policy Decision-Making Modes
    • Study Questions
    • Further Readings
    • Chapter 7 Policy Implementation: Putting Policies into Effect
    • What Is Policy Implementation?
    • Policy Implementation Barriers: Perfect Implementation and the Anatomy of Failure
    • Barriers to Policy Implementation Originating in the Policy Context
    • Overcoming Policy Implementation Challenges: Understanding Policy Behaviour and the Foundations of Compliance
    • Tools, Targets and Policy Compliance
    • Uncertainty: The Need to Deal with Implementation Surprises
    • Implementation Capacities
    • Actors and Activities in Policy Implementation
    • How Multiple Streams Influence Actors During Implementation
    • The Problem Stream
    • The Policy Stream
    • The Politics Stream
    • The Process Stream
    • The Program Stream
    • Implementation Theories: Seeking and Informing the Logic Behind Program Design
    • First Generation: Borrowing from Public Administration
    • Second Generation: Borrowing from Organization Theory
    • Third Generation: Rationalist Theories and Game Theories
    • Fourth Generation Implementation Theory: Taking Capacity Seriously
    • Conclusion: Implementation Styles and Long-Term Instrument Preferences
    • Study Questions
    • Further Readings
    • Chapter 8 Policy Evaluation: Policy-Making as Learning
    • What Is Policy Evaluation?
    • Definition
    • History
    • Perspectives on Evaluation: Positivist and Post-Positivist
    • Approaches to Evaluation: Administrative and Political
    • Policy Evaluation as Policy Learning
    • Actors in the Policy Evaluation Process
    • Internal Evaluators
    • External Evaluators
    • Types of Policy Evaluation
    • Process Evaluation
    • Impact Evaluation
    • Evaluating and Assessing Policy Success and Failure
    • Assessing the Results of Policy Evaluation
    • Evaluation Criteria
    • Dealing with the Results of Evaluation: Policy Feedback and Policy Termination
    • Linking Policy Evaluation and Learning: Evaluation Styles in Government
    • Conclusion: The Role of Evaluation in the Policy Cycle
    • Study Questions
    • Further Readings
    • Part III - Long-Term Policy Dynamics
    • Chapter 9 Patterns of Policy Change: Between Punctuations and Increments
    • The Outcomes of Policy Succession
    • Policy Feedback
    • Policy Termination
    • Types of Policy Change
    • Normal Policy Change
    • Atypical Policy Change
    • Punctuated Equilibrium: Linking Normal and Atypical Policy Change
    • The Continued Contemporary Relevance of Studying Public Policy: Can the Policy Cycle Model Cope with Challenges from "Truthiness"?
    • Conclusion
    • Study Questions
    • Further Readings
    • Notes
    • References
    • Index