The Oxford handbook of public policy

Authors:Michael Moran (Editor), Martin Rein (Editor), Robert E. Goodin (Editor)

Summary: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

Edition:View all formats and editions

Series:

Oxford handbooks of political science

Genre:Book

Physical Description:xii, 983 pages ; 25 cm.

ISBN:

9780199548453, 9780199269280, 0199548455, 0199269289

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:851411262

Subjects:

Book

Policy sciences

Politics and Government

Sciences de la politique

ciencia política

government policy

political science

politique gouvernementale

política gubernamental

sciences politiques

Contents:

About the Contributors

PART I INTRODUCTION

1. The Public and its Policies

(36)

ROBERT E. GOODIN, MARTIN REIN & MICHAEL MORAN

PART II INSTITUTIONAL AND HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

2. The Historical Roots of the Field

(19)

PETER DELEON

3. Emergence of Schools of Public Policy: Reflections by a Founding Dean

(22)

GRAHAM ALLISON

4. Training for Policy Makers

(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

Index

913

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