Oxford University Press, 2006, 983 p.
Серия: Oxford Handbooks of Political Science
Description
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 alteative 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 instill more reflective attitudes among policy practitioners themselves toward their own practices. The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy mines all these traditions, using an innovative structure 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.
Features
- Covers and critiques all the key approaches to public policy from the detached observer to the engaged practitioner
- Engagingly written by an illustrious team of inteational contributors
1. Introduction
The Public and its Policies , Robert E. Goodin, Michael Moran, and Martin Rein
II. Institutional and Historical Background
The Historical Roots of the Field , Peter deLeon
Emergence of Schools of Public Policy , Graham Allison
Training for Policy-Makers , Yehezekel Dror
III. Modes of Policy Analysis
Policy Analysis as Puzzle-solving , Christopher Winship
Policy Analysis as Critical Listening , John Forestor
Policy Analysis as Policy Advice , Richard Wilson
Policy Analysis for Democracy , Helen Ingram and Anne L. Schneider
Policy Analysis as Social Critique , John Dryzek
IV. Producing Public Policy
The Origins of Policy , Edward C. Page
Agenda Setting , Giandomenico Majone
Policy Frame and Discourse , David Laws and Maarten Hajer
Arguing, Bargaining, and Getting Agreement , Lawrence Susskind
Policy Impact , Bea Cantillon and Karel van den Bosch
The Politics of Policy Evaluation , Mark Bovens, Paul 't Hart and Sanneke Kuipers
Policy Dynamics , Eugene Bardach
Leaing in Public Policy , Richard Freeman
Reframing Problematic Policies , Martin Rein
V. Instruments of Policy
Policy in Practice , Maarten Hajer and David Laws
Policy Networks , R.A.W. Rhodes
Smart Policy? , Tom Christiansen
The Tools of Govement in the Information Age , Christopher Hood
Policy Analysis as Organizational Analysis , Barry L. Friedman
Public-Private Collaboration , John D. Donahue and Richard J. Zeckhauser
VI. Constraints on Public Policy
Economic Constraints on Public Policy , John Quiggin
Political Feasibility: Interests and Power , William A. Galston
Institutional Constraints on Policy , Ellen M. Immergut
Social & Cultural Factors , Davis B. Bobrow
Globalization and Public Policy , Colin Hay
VII. Policy Intervention: Styles and Rationales
Distributive and Redistributive Policy , Tom Sefton
Market and Non-Market Failures , Mark Kleiman and Steven N. Teles
Privatization and Regulatory Regimes , Colin Scott
Democratizing the Policy Process , Archon Fung
VIII. Commending and Evaluating Public Policies
The Logic of Appropriateness , James G. March and Johan P. Olsen
Ethical Dimensions of Public Policy , Henry Shue
Economic Techniques , Kevin B. Smith
Economism and its Limits , Jonathan Wolff and Dirk Haubrich
Policy Modeling , Neta C. Crawford
Social Experimentation for Public Policy , Carol Hirschon Weiss and Johanna Birckmayer
IX. Public Policy, Old and New
The Unique Methodology of Policy Research , Amitai Etzioni
Choosing Goveance Systems: A Plea for Comparative Research , Oran R. Young
The Politics of Retrenchment: the U.S. Case , Frances Fox Piven
Reflections on how political scientists (and others) might think about energy and policy , Matthew Holden, Jr.
Reflections on Policy Analysis: Putting it Together Again , Rudolf Klein and Theodore R. Marmor
Серия: Oxford Handbooks of Political Science
Description
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 alteative 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 instill more reflective attitudes among policy practitioners themselves toward their own practices. The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy mines all these traditions, using an innovative structure 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.
Features
- Covers and critiques all the key approaches to public policy from the detached observer to the engaged practitioner
- Engagingly written by an illustrious team of inteational contributors
1. Introduction
The Public and its Policies , Robert E. Goodin, Michael Moran, and Martin Rein
II. Institutional and Historical Background
The Historical Roots of the Field , Peter deLeon
Emergence of Schools of Public Policy , Graham Allison
Training for Policy-Makers , Yehezekel Dror
III. Modes of Policy Analysis
Policy Analysis as Puzzle-solving , Christopher Winship
Policy Analysis as Critical Listening , John Forestor
Policy Analysis as Policy Advice , Richard Wilson
Policy Analysis for Democracy , Helen Ingram and Anne L. Schneider
Policy Analysis as Social Critique , John Dryzek
IV. Producing Public Policy
The Origins of Policy , Edward C. Page
Agenda Setting , Giandomenico Majone
Policy Frame and Discourse , David Laws and Maarten Hajer
Arguing, Bargaining, and Getting Agreement , Lawrence Susskind
Policy Impact , Bea Cantillon and Karel van den Bosch
The Politics of Policy Evaluation , Mark Bovens, Paul 't Hart and Sanneke Kuipers
Policy Dynamics , Eugene Bardach
Leaing in Public Policy , Richard Freeman
Reframing Problematic Policies , Martin Rein
V. Instruments of Policy
Policy in Practice , Maarten Hajer and David Laws
Policy Networks , R.A.W. Rhodes
Smart Policy? , Tom Christiansen
The Tools of Govement in the Information Age , Christopher Hood
Policy Analysis as Organizational Analysis , Barry L. Friedman
Public-Private Collaboration , John D. Donahue and Richard J. Zeckhauser
VI. Constraints on Public Policy
Economic Constraints on Public Policy , John Quiggin
Political Feasibility: Interests and Power , William A. Galston
Institutional Constraints on Policy , Ellen M. Immergut
Social & Cultural Factors , Davis B. Bobrow
Globalization and Public Policy , Colin Hay
VII. Policy Intervention: Styles and Rationales
Distributive and Redistributive Policy , Tom Sefton
Market and Non-Market Failures , Mark Kleiman and Steven N. Teles
Privatization and Regulatory Regimes , Colin Scott
Democratizing the Policy Process , Archon Fung
VIII. Commending and Evaluating Public Policies
The Logic of Appropriateness , James G. March and Johan P. Olsen
Ethical Dimensions of Public Policy , Henry Shue
Economic Techniques , Kevin B. Smith
Economism and its Limits , Jonathan Wolff and Dirk Haubrich
Policy Modeling , Neta C. Crawford
Social Experimentation for Public Policy , Carol Hirschon Weiss and Johanna Birckmayer
IX. Public Policy, Old and New
The Unique Methodology of Policy Research , Amitai Etzioni
Choosing Goveance Systems: A Plea for Comparative Research , Oran R. Young
The Politics of Retrenchment: the U.S. Case , Frances Fox Piven
Reflections on how political scientists (and others) might think about energy and policy , Matthew Holden, Jr.
Reflections on Policy Analysis: Putting it Together Again , Rudolf Klein and Theodore R. Marmor