The public policy process
Michael Hill.
Bok Engelsk 2013 Michael J. Hill,· Electronic books.
| Omfang | 1 online resource (367 p.)
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| Utgave | 6th ed.
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Brief Contents; Table of Contents; Preface; Publisher's acknowledgements; Part 1 Introduction; 1 Studying the policy process; Synopsis; Introduction; Description and prescription in policy analysis; Does a process perspective need to start with any assumptions about the shape it takes?; Studying the policy process; Focussing on the policy process: exploration through examples; The meaning of 'policy'; Public policy; Conclusions; Part 2 Policy theories; 2 Theories of power and the policy process; Synopsis; Introduction. - Game theoryThe economic theory of bureaucracy; The limitations of rational choice approaches; Conclusions; 6 Integrating theoretical approaches; Synopsis; Introduction; Contrasting perspectives on the policy process revisited; Examining the perspectives using examples; Part 3 Analysis of the policy process; 7 Policy types?; Synopsis; Introduction; Making war; Trying to control the economy; Providing income maintenance; Trying to prevent pollution; Providing education; Reorganising health services; Policy types; Conclusions; 8 Policy and politics; Synopsis; Policy and power. - Identifying winners and losersWinners and losers in relation to the policy areas; Policy stages; Relating the stages approach to actual policy issues; The use of a stages approach: just a pragmatic matter or something more?; Conclusions; 9 Agenda setting; Synopsis; Introduction; What is a policy issue or problem?; From the rational model of policy decision making to incrementalism; Kingdon's model of the agenda-setting process; Developments of Kingdon's approach; Applying Kingdon's model: does it underplay the ways in which agenda setting may be structured?; The impact of mandates?. - Origins of pluralist theory: rescuing the theory of representative democracyDahl and his followers; The critique of pluralism; The pluralists rethink?; The elitist perspective; Marxism; Structuralist aspects of the Marxist perspective; Other structuralist perspectives; Economic determinism without Marxism; Globalism; Other variants of structuralism; Conclusions; 3 From pluralism to networks; Synopsis; Corporatist theory, or corporatism; Policy networks and policy communities; The advocacy coalition approach; The network paradox; Conclusions; 4 Institutional theory; Synopsis; Introduction. - The impact of the media. - The roots of institutional analysis of the policy processInstitutional theory today; Institutional theory and the explanation of change; From institutional theory to garbage cans; The contribution of comparative studies for the exploration of the institutional perspective: introduction; Attempts to identify institutional differences that may affect the policy process; Explaining policy differences by institutional differences; Conclusions; 5 Rational choice theory; Synopsis; Introduction; The development of the idea of the political marketplace; Rational choice and collective action. - The Public Policy Process is essential reading for anyone trying to understand the process by which public policy is made. Explaining clearly the importance of the relationship between theoretical and practical aspects of policy-making, the book gives a thorough overview of the people and organisations involved in the process. Fully revised and updated for a sixth edition, The Public Policy Process provides
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| ISBN | 1-315-83293-3. - 1-317-86036-5
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