Public Policy
1st Edition
Published on 24. January 2012
Book
Hardback
1496 pages
978-1-4462-0152-7 (ISBN)
Description
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
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
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Series
Edition
Four-Volume Set
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
2861 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4462-0152-7 (9781446201527)
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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).
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 Frederic Varone of the University of Geneva. In 2020 he published Exploring the World of Social Policy with Zoe Irving of the University of York.
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 Frederic Varone of the University of Geneva. In 2020 he published Exploring the World of Social Policy with Zoe Irving of the University of York.
Content
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
The Ambiguity-Conflict Model of Policy Implementation
Research on Policy Implementation - Laurence O'Toole Jr.
Assessment and Prospects
Theory of 'Soft' Policy Implementation in Multilevel Systems with an Application to Social Partnership in The Netherlands - Rene Torenvlied and Agnes Akkerman
PART EIGHT: POLICY-MAKING AT THE STREET LEVEL
Street-Level Bureaucracy and the Analysis of Urban Reform - Michael Lipsky
Street-Level Bureaucrats and Institutional Innovation - Richard Weatherley and Michael Lipsky
Implementing Special Education Reform
From Street-Level to System-Level Bureaucracies - Mark Bovens and Stavros Zouridis
How Information and Communication Technology Is Transforming Administrative Discretion and Constitutional Control
Understanding Implementation - Heather Hill
Street-Level Bureaucrat's Resources for Reform
Politicians, Managers and Street-Level Bureaucrats - Peter May and Soren Winter
Influences on Policy Implementation
PART NINE: POLICY IN CONTEXT
Assessing Policy Outcomes - Mark Bovens and Paul Hart
Social and Political Biases
Summing up - Joop Koppenjan and Erik-Hans Klijn
Dealing with Uncertainties in Networks
The Politics of Path Dependency - B. Guy Peters, Jon Pierre and Desmond King
Political Conflict in Historical Institutionalism
A Decade of Treating Networks Seriously - Scott Robinson
Vertical Politics in Horizontal Policy Networks - Joop Koppenjan, Mirjam Kars and Haiko van der Voort
Framework Setting as Coupling Arrangement
VOLUME FOUR: PUBLIC POLICY IN PROGRESS
PART TEN: EVIDENCE AND POLICY-MAKING
Research for Policy's Sake - Carol Weiss
The Enlightenment Function of Social Science Research
Epilogue - Mark Bovens and Paul 't Hart
Making Sense of Policy Fiascoes
Policy Analysis, Science and Politics - Robert Hoppe
From 'Speaking Truth to Power' to 'Making Sense Together'
Disorderly Progress on the Frontiers of Policy Evaluation - Dale Krane
Debating the Head Start Program - Frank Fischer
The Westinghouse Reading Scores in Normative Perspective
Towards a Framework for Establishing Policy Success - David Marsh and Allan McConnell
PART ELEVEN: POLICY TRANSFER
Learning from Abroad - David Dolowicz and David Marsh
The Role of Policy Transfer in Contemporary Policy-Making
The Limitations of 'Policy Transfer' and 'Lesson Drawing' for Public Policy Research - Oliver James and Martin Lodge
Policy Transfer in the European Union - Simon Bulmer and Stephen Padgett
An Institutionalist Perspective
Causes and Conditions of Cross-National Policy Convergence - Katharina Holzinger and Christoph Knill
Innovation and Diffusion Models in Policy Research - Frances Stokes Berry and William Berry
PART TWELVE: POLICY CHANGE (INCLUDING POLICY TERMINATION)
Policy Paradigms, Social Learning and the State - Peter Hall
The Case of Economic Policy-Making in Britain
Ideas, Institutions and Political Order - Robert Lieberman
Explaining Political Change
Riding the Wave of Opportunity - Iris Geva-May
Termination in Public Policy
Comparative Studies of Policy Agendas - Frank Baumgartner, Christoffer Green-Pedersen and Bryan Jones
Process Sequencing Policy Dynamics - Michael Howlett
Beyond Homeostasis and Path Dependency
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
The Ambiguity-Conflict Model of Policy Implementation
Research on Policy Implementation - Laurence O'Toole Jr.
Assessment and Prospects
Theory of 'Soft' Policy Implementation in Multilevel Systems with an Application to Social Partnership in The Netherlands - Rene Torenvlied and Agnes Akkerman
PART EIGHT: POLICY-MAKING AT THE STREET LEVEL
Street-Level Bureaucracy and the Analysis of Urban Reform - Michael Lipsky
Street-Level Bureaucrats and Institutional Innovation - Richard Weatherley and Michael Lipsky
Implementing Special Education Reform
From Street-Level to System-Level Bureaucracies - Mark Bovens and Stavros Zouridis
How Information and Communication Technology Is Transforming Administrative Discretion and Constitutional Control
Understanding Implementation - Heather Hill
Street-Level Bureaucrat's Resources for Reform
Politicians, Managers and Street-Level Bureaucrats - Peter May and Soren Winter
Influences on Policy Implementation
PART NINE: POLICY IN CONTEXT
Assessing Policy Outcomes - Mark Bovens and Paul Hart
Social and Political Biases
Summing up - Joop Koppenjan and Erik-Hans Klijn
Dealing with Uncertainties in Networks
The Politics of Path Dependency - B. Guy Peters, Jon Pierre and Desmond King
Political Conflict in Historical Institutionalism
A Decade of Treating Networks Seriously - Scott Robinson
Vertical Politics in Horizontal Policy Networks - Joop Koppenjan, Mirjam Kars and Haiko van der Voort
Framework Setting as Coupling Arrangement
VOLUME FOUR: PUBLIC POLICY IN PROGRESS
PART TEN: EVIDENCE AND POLICY-MAKING
Research for Policy's Sake - Carol Weiss
The Enlightenment Function of Social Science Research
Epilogue - Mark Bovens and Paul 't Hart
Making Sense of Policy Fiascoes
Policy Analysis, Science and Politics - Robert Hoppe
From 'Speaking Truth to Power' to 'Making Sense Together'
Disorderly Progress on the Frontiers of Policy Evaluation - Dale Krane
Debating the Head Start Program - Frank Fischer
The Westinghouse Reading Scores in Normative Perspective
Towards a Framework for Establishing Policy Success - David Marsh and Allan McConnell
PART ELEVEN: POLICY TRANSFER
Learning from Abroad - David Dolowicz and David Marsh
The Role of Policy Transfer in Contemporary Policy-Making
The Limitations of 'Policy Transfer' and 'Lesson Drawing' for Public Policy Research - Oliver James and Martin Lodge
Policy Transfer in the European Union - Simon Bulmer and Stephen Padgett
An Institutionalist Perspective
Causes and Conditions of Cross-National Policy Convergence - Katharina Holzinger and Christoph Knill
Innovation and Diffusion Models in Policy Research - Frances Stokes Berry and William Berry
PART TWELVE: POLICY CHANGE (INCLUDING POLICY TERMINATION)
Policy Paradigms, Social Learning and the State - Peter Hall
The Case of Economic Policy-Making in Britain
Ideas, Institutions and Political Order - Robert Lieberman
Explaining Political Change
Riding the Wave of Opportunity - Iris Geva-May
Termination in Public Policy
Comparative Studies of Policy Agendas - Frank Baumgartner, Christoffer Green-Pedersen and Bryan Jones
Process Sequencing Policy Dynamics - Michael Howlett
Beyond Homeostasis and Path Dependency