Contemporary Approaches to Public Policy
Subtitle: Theories, Controversies and Perspectives
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9781137504937
Subjects: Policy sciences
Description: This book considers a range of contemporary approaches to public policy studies. These approaches are based on a number of theoretical perspectives on decision-making, as well as alternative perspectives on policy instruments and implementation. The range of approaches covered in the volume includes punctuated equilibrium models, the advocacy-coalition framework, multiple streams approaches, institutional analyses, constructivist approaches, behavioural models, and the use of instruments as an approach to public policy. The volume concludes with a discussion of fundamental issues of democracy in public policy.