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The Oxford handbook of public policy

Michael Moran (Editor), Martin Rein (Editor), Robert E. Goodin (Editor)
Annotation Public policy is the business end of political science. It is where theory meets practice in the pursuit of the public good. Political scientists approach public policy in myriad ways. Some approach the policy process descriptively, asking how the need for public intervention comes to be perceived, a policy response formulated, enacted, implemented, and, all too often, subverted, perverted, altered, or abandoned. Others approach public policy more prescriptively, offering politically-informed suggestions for how normatively valued goals can and should be pursued, either through particular policies or through alternative processes for making policy. Some offer their advice from the Olympian heights of detached academic observers, others as 'engaged scholars' cum advocates, while still others seek to instil more reflective attitudes among policy practitioners themselves toward their own practices. The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy mines all these traditions, using an innovativestructure that responds to the very latest scholarship. Its chapters touch upon institutional and historical sources and analytical methods, how policy is made, how it is evaluated and how it is constrained. In these ways, the Handbook shows how the combined wisdom of political science as a whole can be brought to bear on political attempts to improve the human condition
Print Book, English, 2008, ©2006
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008, ©2006
Book
xii, 983 pages ; 25 cm.
9780199548453, 9780199269280, 0199548455, 0199269289
851411262
About the Contributorsix
PART I INTRODUCTION
1. The Public and its Policies
3(36)
ROBERT E. GOODIN, MARTIN REIN & MICHAEL MORAN
PART II INSTITUTIONAL AND HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
2. The Historical Roots of the Field
39(19)
PETER DELEON
3. Emergence of Schools of Public Policy: Reflections by a Founding Dean
58(22)
GRAHAM ALLISON
4. Training for Policy Makers
80(29)
YEHEZKEL DROR
PART III MODES OF POLICY ANALYSIS
5. Policy Analysis as Puzzle Solving
109(15)
CHRISTOPHER WINSHIP
6. Policy Analysis as Critical Listening
124(28)
JOHN FORESTER
7. Policy Analysis as Policy Advice
152(17)
RICHARD WILSON
8. Policy Analysis for Democracy
169(21)
HELEN INGRAM & ANNE L. SCHNEIDER
9. Policy Analysis as Critique
190
JOHN S. DRYZEK
PART IV PRODUCING PUBLIC POLICY
10. The Origins of Policy
207(21)
EDWARD C. PAGE
11. Agenda Setting
228(23)
GIANDOMENICO MAJONE
12. Ordering through Discourse
251(18)
MAARTEN HAJER & DAVID LAWS
13. Arguing, Bargaining, and Getting Agreement
269(27)
LAWRENCE SUSSKIND
14. Policy Impact
296(23)
KAREL VAN DEN BOSCH & BEA CANTILLON
15. The Politics of Policy Evaluation
319(17)
MARK BOVENS, PAUL 'T HART & SANNEKE KUIPERS
16. Policy Dynamics
336(31)
EUGENE BARDACH
17. Learning in Public Policy
367(22)
RICHARD FREEMAN
18. Reframing Problematic Policies
389(20)
MARTIN REIN
PART V INSTRUMENTS OF POLICY
19. Policy in Practice
409(16)
DAVID LAWS & MAARTEN HAJER
20. Policy Network Analysis
425(23)
R.A.W. RHODES
21. Smart Policy?
448(21)
TOM CHRISTENSEN
22. The Tools of Government in the Information Age
469(13)
CHRISTOPHER HOOD
23. Policy Analysis as Organizational Analysis
482(14)
BARRY L. FRIEDMAN
24. Public��Private Collaboration
496(33)
JOHN D. DONAHUE & RICHARD J. ZECKHAUSER
PART VI CONSTRAINTS ON PUBLIC POLICY
25. Economic Constraints on Public Policy
529(14)
JOHN QUIGGIN
26. Political Feasibility: Interests and Power
543(14)
WILLIAM A. GALSTON
27. Institutional Constraints on Policy
557(15)
ELLEN M. IMMERGUT
28. Social and Cultural Factors: Constraining and Enabling
572(15)
DAVIS B. BOBROW
29. Globalization and Public Policy
587(20)
COLIN HAY
PART VII POLICY INTERVENTION: STYLES AND RATIONALES
30. Distributive and Redistributive Policy
607(17)
TOM SEFTON
31. Market and Non-Market Failures
624(27)
MARK A.R. KLEIMAN & STEVEN M. TELES
32. Privatization and Regulatory Regimes
651(18)
COLIN SCOTT
33. Democratizing the Policy Process
669(20)
ARCHON FUNG
PART VIII COMMENDING AND EVALUATING PUBLIC POLICIES
34. The Logic of Appropriateness
689(20)
JAMES G. MARCH & JOHAN P. OLSEN
35. Ethical Dimensions of Public Policy
709(20)
HENRY SHUE
36. Economic Techniques
729(17)
KEVIN B. SMITH
37. Economism and its Limits
746(25)
JONATHAN WOLFF & DIRK HAUBRICH
38. Policy Modeling
771(35)
NETA C. CRAWFORD
39. Social Experimentation for Public Policy
806(27)
CAROL HIRSCHON WEISS & JOHANNA BIRCKMAYER
PART IX PUBLIC POLICY, OLD AND NEW
40. The Unique Methodology of Policy Research
833(11)
AMITAI ETZIONI
41, Choosing Governance Systems: A Plea for Comparative Research
844(14)
ORAN R. YOUNG
42. The Politics of Retrenchment: The US Case
858(16)
FRANCES FOX PIVEN
43. Reflections on How Political Scientists (and Others) Might Think about Energy and Policy
874(18)
MATTHEW HOLDEN, JR.
44. Reflections on Policy Analysis: Putting it Together Again
892(21)
RUDOLF KLEIN & THEODORE R. MARMOR
Index913