The public policy theory primer
- 2nd Ed
- Boulder Westview Press 2013
- 273p xi
Table of contents: 1 Public Policy as a Concept and a Field (or Fields) of Study; 2 Does Politics Cause Policy? Does Policy Cause Politics; 3 Who Makes Decisions? How Do They Make Decisions? Actors and Institutions; 4 Where Does Policy Come From? The Policy Process; 5 What Should We Do? The Field of Policy Analysis; 6 What Have We Done? Impact Analysis and Program Evaluation; 7 How Does It Work? Policy Implementation; 8 Whose Values? Policy Design; 9 New Directions in Policy Research; 10 Do the Policy Sciences Exist?