Handbook of Public Policy
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Handbook of Public Policy

  1. 528 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Handbook of Public Policy

About this book

?The new handbook by Peters and Pierre provides an invaluable addition to the literature. It offers new scholars and practitioners a means to navigate many of the complex theoretical and practical issues in contemporary policy analysis? - Mark Considine, University of Melbourne

The public policies of governments affect the lives and livelihoods of citizens every day in every country around the world. This handbook provides a comprehensive review and guide to the study, theory and practice of public policy today.

Section One, Making Policy, introduces the policy making process - the means by which public policies are formulated, adopted and implemented - and serves to review the many competing conceptualizations within the field.

Section Two, Substantive Policy Areas, focuses on a number of substantive policy areas to consider both diversity and commonalties across different sectoral policy areas.

Section Three, Evaluating Public Policy, addresses issues of policy analysis more directly and assesses successes and failures in public policy in an attempt to answer the question ?what is good policy??.

The concluding chapter considers the different disciplinary contributions to the research and study of public policy both retrospectively and prospectively.

Drawing contributions from leading academics and policy analysts from around the world, the handbook illustrates the changing role of governments vis-à-vis the public and private sector and the different policy actors (national and international, governmental and non-governmental) involved in the policy making process.

It will be an essential companion for all advanced undergraduates, graduates, academics and practitioners across public policy and public administration, public management, government and political science.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Contributors
  4. Introduction
  5. Section 1: Making Policy
  6. Chapter 1 - The Three Action Levels of Governance: Re-framing the Policy Process Beyond the Stages Model
  7. Chapter 2 - The Policy Sciences: Past, Present, and Future
  8. Chapter 3 - Behavioral Rationality and the Policy Processes: Toward A New Model of Organizational Information Processing
  9. Chapter 4 - Policy Design: Ubiquitous Necessary and Difficult
  10. Chapter 5 - Networks and Bargaining in Policy Analysis
  11. Chapter 6 - Concepts and Theories of Horizontal Policy Management
  12. Chapter 7 - Budgeting
  13. Chapter 8 - Implementation
  14. Section 2: Substantive Policy Areas
  15. Chapter 9 - Constitutions and Rights
  16. Chapter 10 - Social Policy: Pensions
  17. Chapter 11 - Social Policy: Is There A Crisis of the Welfare State?
  18. Chapter 12 - Health Policy
  19. Chapter 13 - Education Policy
  20. Chapter 14 - Environmental Policy
  21. Chapter 15 - Cultural Policy
  22. Chapter 16 - Tax Policy
  23. Chapter 17 - Industrial Policy in Developed Nations
  24. Chapter 18 - Argiculture and Food
  25. Chapter 19 - Transportation and Infrastructure
  26. Chapter 20 - Foreign Policy
  27. Chapter 21 - Criminal Justice Policy
  28. Chapter 22 - Privatisation by Divestment
  29. Section 3: Evaluating Policy
  30. Chapter 23: Evaluation Research
  31. Chapter 24 - Efficiency and Cost-Benefit Analysis
  32. Chapter 25 - Ethics and Public Policy
  33. Chapter 26 - Performance and Performance Management
  34. Chapter 27 - Argumentative Policy Analysis
  35. Chapter 28 - Disciplinary Perspectives
  36. Index