Public Policy

Four-Volume Set
ISBN: 978-1-4462-0152-7
Verlag: SAGE PUBN

Buch, Englisch, 1496 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 249 mm, Gewicht: 2880 g

Reihe: SAGE Library of the Public Sector

The study of public policy has a long history. It is rooted in the study of politics and of public administration as having developed from the former into a discipline of its own. Theory and research of public policy also involves the application of the sociology of organizations to the public sector and the concerns of studies of separate substantive fields of policy, like social policy, education policy and environmental policy.

This collection focuses on the scholarly analysis of public policy, drawing on the various originating threads. It includes work that is prescriptive in character inasmuch as it contributes to a deeper understanding of the policy process in the public sector. The collection is mindful of the way in which new ways of cutting up the subject have emerged. Particularly salient, here, have been, on the one hand, studies with a focus on how policy is made and, on the other, a concern with public management.

Volume One: Public Policy in Perspective

Volume Two: Towards Public Policy

Volume Three: Public Policy in Action

Volume Four: Public Policy in Progress

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hupe, Peter

Hill, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Staats- und Regierungsformen, Staatslehre
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Verwaltungswissenschaft, Öffentliche Verwaltung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

VOLUME ONE: PUBLIC POLICY IN PERSPECTIVE

Introduction - Peter Hupe and Michael Hill
Analysis in Action: The Two Faces of Public Policy
PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS

In What Way Princes May Keep Faith - Niccolo Machiavelli
Rationality in Administrative Behavior - Herbert Simon
The Emerging Conception of the Policy Sciences - Harold Lasswell
Four Systems of Policy, Politics and Choice - Theodore Lowi
Institutional Perspectives on Political Institutions - James March and Johan Olsen
A Behavioural Approach to the Rational Choice Theory of Collective Action - Elinor Ostrom
PART TWO: MODELS OF THE POLICY PROCESS

The Study of Administration - Woodrow Wilson
The New Governance - Rod Rhodes
Governing without Government
The Dynamics of Multi-Organizational Partnerships - Vivien Lowndes and Chris Skelcher
An Analysis of Changing Modes of Governance
Analyzing Policy Processes as Multiple Governance - Michael Hill and Peter Hupe
Accountability in Social Policy
The Need for Better Theories - Paul Sabatier
PART THREE: PUBLIC POLICY AND BEYOND

From Public Administration to Public Management - Andrew Gray and Bill Jenkins
Reassessing a Revolution
Introduction to Policy Paradox - Deborah Stone
The Art of Political Decision-Making
Policy without Polity? Policy Analysis and the Institutional Void - Maarten Hajer
E-Government and NPM - Vincent Homburg
A Perfect Marriage?
Is Hierarchical Governance in Decline? Evidence from Empirical Research - Carolyn Hill and Laurence Lynn
VOLUME TWO: TOWARDS PUBLIC POLICY

PART FOUR: POLICY AGENDA-BUILDING
Decisions and Non-Decisions - Peter Bachrach and Morton Baratz
An Analytical Framework
Agenda-Building as a Comparative Political Process - Roger Cobb, Jennie-Keith Ross and Marc Howard Ross
The Politics of Blame Avoidance - R. Kent Weaver
How Does an Idea's Time Come - John Kingdon
Focusing Events, Mobilization and Agenda-Setting - Thomas Birkland

The Advocacy Coalition Framework - Paul Sabatier and Christopher Weible
Innovations and Clarification
PART FIVE: POLICY FORMULATION
Policy Instruments, Policy Styles and Policy Implementation - Michael Howlett
National Approaches to Theories of Instrument Choice
The Selection of Policy Instruments - Hans Bressers and Laurence O'Toole Jr.

A Network-Based Perspective
Intellectual Obsolescence and Intellectual Makeovers - Christopher Hood

Reflections on the Tools of Government after Two Decades
Introduction - Pierre Lascoumes and Patrick Le Gales
Understanding Public Policy through Its Instruments - from the Nature of Instruments to the Sociology of Public Policy Implementation
The Lessons for Policy Work - Hal Colebatch, Robert Hoppe and Mirko Noordegraaf
PART SIX: POLICY DECISION-MAKING
The Science of Muddling through - Charles Lindblom
Conclusion to The Essence of Decision - Graham Allison
Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis
Between Planning and Politics - Aaron Wildavsky
Intellect versus Interaction as Analysis

Rethinking Allison's Models - Jonathan Bendor and Thomas Hammond
Managing Value Conflict in Public Policy - David Thacher and Martin Rein
VOLUME THREE: PUBLIC POLICY IN ACTION

PART SEVEN: POLICY IMPLEMENTATION
Appearances and Formulating Policy - Jeffrey Pressman and Aaron Wildavsky
The Policy Implementation Process - Donald van Meter and Carl van Horn
A Conceptual Framework
Implementation Structures - Benny Hjern and David Porter
A New Unit of Administrative Analysis
The Pressman-Wildavsky Paradox - Elinor Bowen
Four Addenda or Why Models Based on Probability Theory Can Predict Implementation Success and Suggest Useful Tactical Advice for Implementers
Top-down and Bottom-up Approaches to Implementation Research - Paul Sabatier
A Critical Analysis and Suggested Synthesis
Synthesizing the Implementation Literature - Richard Matland

Über Autor(innen)

Hill, Michael
Michael Hill is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at the University of Newcastle, UK. Before entering academic life at the University of Reading he was a street-level bureaucrat in a local social assistance office. He later worked on research at the Universities of Oxford and Bristol on the implementation of social policy. Since retiring from Newcastle he has held part-time visiting professorships in London University at Goldsmiths College and Queen Mary College and also in the London School of Economics and the University of Brighton. His long-standing text The Public Policy Process reached its eighth edition in 2021 in a joint version with Frédéric Varone of the University of Geneva. In 2020 he published Exploring the World of Social Policy with Zoë Irving of the University of York.

Hupe, Peter
Peter Hupe is Visiting Professor at the Public Governance Institute, KU Leuven, Belgium. He is also Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the School of Social Policy, University of Birmingham, UK. While teaching Public Administration at Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands, he had academic affiliations in Leiden, Leuven, London, Oxford and Potsdam. The major part of his research regards the theoretical-empirical study of policy processes, particularly implementation and street-level bureaucracy. He discovered the relevance of the latter during an earlier career as a policymaker in the Dutch national civil service. Publishing regularly in journals like Public Administration, Public Policy and Administration and Public Management Review, in 2019 he composed the Research Handbook of Street-Level Bureaucracy: The Ground Floor of Government in Context. With Tony Evans he edited Discretion and the Quest for Controlled Freedom (2020).