Public Policy
A Comprehensive Introduction
Published on 15. March 2018
307 pages
978-80-246-4007-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book provides an up-to-date, comprehensive, synoptic, and easy-to-grasp account of the state of public policy as a field. Both a scholar and a Czech policy maker, Martin Potucek draws on his vast and diverse experience to offer descriptions of public policy's normative and conceptual foundations, stages, actors, and institutions, as well as fifteen of the most frequently used public policy theories. Featuring illustrative empirical case studies, this innovative guide shows how these theories can be applied to making public policy. With particular insight into the importance of cultural context and historical legacies for policy making in post-Communist Europe, Public Policy provides nuanced, expert insight into the difficulties of public policy discourse and reform.
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Content
- Cover Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Overview of the Public Policy Theories Presented
- List of Abbreviations
- Part A
- A1. Public Interest and Public Policy
- A2. Values in Public Policy
- A3. Governance
- A4. Actors and Institutions
- A5. Public Policy Instruments
- A6. Public Policy Process. The Stage of Problem Delimitation and Problem Recognition
- A7. Policy Formulation, Decision-making
- A8. Policy Implementation
- A9. Policy Evaluation
- A10. How to Understand Public Policy
- Literature - Part A
- Journals and Internet Sources
- English-Czech Glossary of Public Policy Terms
- List of Tables - Part A
- List of Figures - Part A
- Part B
- Introduction to Part B
- Terminology of the Pillars in the Czech Pension System
- B1. Historical Overview of Pension Systems in the World and in the Czech Republic
- B2. The Role of Politicians and Experts in the Preparation of Czech Pension Reform
- B3. Czech Pension Reform: How to Reconcile Equivalence with Fiscal Discipline
- B4. Rivalry of Advocacy Coalitions in the Czech Pension Reform
- B5. Pensions Basics
- Literature - Part B
- List of Tables - Part B
- List of Figures - Part B
