The Public Policy Process

9. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-93917-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 440 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

The Public Policy Process is essential reading for anyone trying to understand the process by which public policy is made.

Explaining clearly the importance of the relationship between theoretical and practical aspects of policymaking, this book gives a thorough overview of the people and organisations involved in the process. Changes to the complexity of the problems faced everywhere and to the way populist approaches to policymaking are emerging make new thinking essential about how the policy process is examined across the globe.

Key features and updates:

- Detailed discussion of challenges to effective policymaking in turbulent times, with special emphasis on crises and populism.

- Improved discussions about critical issues, such as governance, bureaucracy, global policies and artificial intelligence, among others.

- New material relating to countries from the Global South and unequal democracies.

- Further attention to comparative international examples from Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia.

This text is essential reading for students of public policy, public administration and management, as well as more broadly highly relevant to related courses in health and nursing, social welfare, environment, economics, development and local government.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Varone, Frederic

Hill, Michael

Lotta, Gabriela

Varone, Frédéric

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Policy Theories  1. Studying the policy process  2. Theories of power and the policy process  3. Interests and groups  4. Institutional theory  5. Comparative policy process studies  6. Integrating theoretical approaches  Part 2: Analysis of the Policy Process  7. Policy and politics  8. Agenda setting  9. Policy formulation  10. Implementation: An overview  11. Bureaucracy: Organisational structures and processes  12. Discretion, rules and street-level organisations  13. Evaluation and accountability  14. The policy process in the age of governance

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Hill is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at the University of Newcastle, UK.

Frédéric Varone is Professor of Political Science at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and an elected member of the Geneva Court of Audit.

Gabriela Lotta is a Professor of Public Administration at Getulio Vargas Foundation, FGV, Brazil.