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Public policy : the competitive framework / Ewen J. Michael.

By:

Michael, Ewen J [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: South Melbourne, Vic. ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006Description: xi, 260 pages ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0195555260
9780195555264

Subject(s): DDC classification:

320.6 22

LOC classification:

H97 .M524 2006

Contents:

1. Introduction : the policy problem -- 2. What is the state? -- 3. The market system at work -- 4. Issues in public economics -- 5. Market failure and intervention -- 6. Decision making : who influences whom? -- 7. Interest groups and the theory of market segmentation -- 8. Competition -- 9. Privatisation and the economics of interest groups -- 10. Community service obligations : a strategy to avoid collective failure -- 11. Accountability and the democratic process.

Review: "Public Policy: The Competitive Framework analyses the ways in which contemporary democracies make decisions that determine the welfare and well-being of their citizens. Examples and case studies from around the world demonstrate the effects of globalisation and transnational relations on competition policy and government intervention."--BOOK JACKET.Summary: Providing an accessible and comprehensive explanation of how public policy is formed and why, this text presents an alternative interpretation of public policy analysis that is synthesised with market segmentation theory.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-252) and index.

"Public Policy: The Competitive Framework analyses the ways in which contemporary democracies make decisions that determine the welfare and well-being of their citizens. Examples and case studies from around the world demonstrate the effects of globalisation and transnational relations on competition policy and government intervention."--BOOK JACKET.

Providing an accessible and comprehensive explanation of how public policy is formed and why, this text presents an alternative interpretation of public policy analysis that is synthesised with market segmentation theory.

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