Smith Kevin B

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?

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1. Policy Sciences2. Political Planning

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