Understanding public policy
Subtitle: theories and issues
By: Paul Cairney
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230229716
Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General; Political planning; Public administration
Description: "This book is a new introduction to theories of public policy. The author provides an accessible assessment of a wide range of theories and models from policy cycles, policy transfer, rational choice and socio-economic explanations to multi-level governance, advocacy coalitions and punctuated equilibrium and of their value to policy analysis"--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction: A Multiple Lens Approach to Policy Change; title: What is Public Policy and How Do We Identify Continuity and Change?; title: Power, Governance and Decision-Making; title: Institutions and Policy Change; title: Rationality and Incrementalism; title: Structural explanations; title: Rational Choice theory; title: Multi-level Governance; title: Punctuated Equilibrium and Venue Shift; title: Advocacy Coalition Framework; title: The Role of Ideas, Knowledge and Beliefs; title: Policy Transfer; title: Implementation, Evaluation and Learning; title: Conclusion.