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Understanding public policy : Theories and issues / By Paul Cairney

By: Publication details: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019,Edition: 2nd editionDescription: xx, 320 pages 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781137545183 (Paperback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.6 CAI
Contents:
Preface; 1. Introduction to Policy and Policymaking; 2. What is Policy and Policymaking?; 3. Power and Public Policy; 4. Bounded Rationality and the Psychology of Policymaking; 5. Institutions and New Institutionalism; 6. Structures, Environments, and Complex Systems; 7. Collective Action Problems in Public Policy; 8. Multi-level Governance and Multi-centric Policymaking; 9. Punctuated Equilibrium Theory; 10. The Advocacy Coalition Framework; 11. Ideas and 'Multiple Streams' Analysis; 12. Policy Learning and Transfer; 13. Conclusion: policy theory as accumulated wisdom.
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Preface;
1. Introduction to Policy and Policymaking;
2. What is Policy and Policymaking?;
3. Power and Public Policy;
4. Bounded Rationality and the Psychology of Policymaking;
5. Institutions and New Institutionalism;
6. Structures, Environments, and Complex Systems;
7. Collective Action Problems in Public Policy;
8. Multi-level Governance and Multi-centric Policymaking;
9. Punctuated Equilibrium Theory;
10. The Advocacy Coalition Framework;
11. Ideas and 'Multiple Streams' Analysis;
12. Policy Learning and Transfer;
13. Conclusion: policy theory as accumulated wisdom.