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Public policy : an introduction to the theory and practice of policy analysis / Wayne Parsons.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Aldershot, UK ; Brookfield, Vt., US : Edward Elgar, [1995]Copyright date: ©1995Description: xviii, 675 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1852785535
  • 9781852785536
  • 1852785543
  • 9781852785543
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.6 20
LOC classification:
  • H97 .P373 1995
Contents:
List of figures -- Preface -- Introduction -- Pt. 1. Meta Analysis -- 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: shifts 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 -- Pt. 2. Meso Analysis -- 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 -- Pt. 3. Decision Analysis -- 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 -- Pt. 4. Delivery Analysis -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 617-651) and index.

List of figures -- Preface -- Introduction -- Pt. 1. Meta Analysis -- 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: shifts 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 -- Pt. 2. Meso Analysis -- 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 -- Pt. 3. Decision Analysis -- 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 -- Pt. 4. Delivery Analysis -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Index.

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