Public policy: an introduction to the theory and practice of policy analysis

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Contents: PART I 1.1 Introduction 1.2 'Public and 'Policy' as Concepts 1.3 The Development of the Policy Approach 1.4 Kinds of Policy Analysts and Policy Analysis 1.5 Varieties of Analytical Frameworks 1.6 Philosophical Frameworks 1.7 Analysis and the Policy Process 1.8 Models, Maps and Metaphors 1.9 Paradigms Lost and Found: Sifts in the Focus and Frameworks of Policy Analysis 1.10 Stages and Cycles: Mapping the Policy Process 1.11 The Arrangement of Parts Two, Three and Four PART II 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Social Problem Approaches 2.3 Public Opinion and Public Policy 2.4 Theories of Agenda Control 2.5 Typologies of Policy Issues 2.6 Pluralism, Non-Decision-Making and the Third Dimension of Power 2.7 Neo-Marxist and Critical Approaches 2.8 Knowledge and the Policy Agenda 2.9 Policies and Problems as Symbols 2.10 Networks, Streams, Advocacy Coalitions and Punctuated Equilibrium 2.11 Analysing the Boundaries 2.12 Globalization and Policy-Making: The International Parameters PART III 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Decision-Making: Frameworks and Disciplinary Contexts 3.3 Power Approaches to Decision-Making 3.4 Rationality and Decision-Making 3.5 The Public Choice Approach to Decision-Making 3.6 Institutional Approaches 3.7 Personality, Cognition and Information Processing in Decision-Making 3.8 Policy Analysis and Public Decisions 3.9 Rational Decision-Making and the quest for Knowledgeable Governance 3.10 Critiques of Policy Analysis PART IIII 4.1 Introduction 4.2 The Arrangement of Part Four 4.3 Implementation 4.4 Delivery Systems 4.5 Evaluation 4.6 Change and Continuity in Policy-Making 4.7 Promise and Performance: Evaluating Impact and Outcomes 4.8 Conclusion: Beyond Delivery and Towards Democratization Index