TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith, Kevin B.
AU  - Larimer, Christopher W.
TI  - The Public policy theory primer
SN  - 9780813347493
AV  - H 97 .S58 2013 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Colorado
PB  - Westview Press
KW  - POLICY SCIENCES
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; 1. Public policy as a concept and a field (or fields) of study -- 2. Does politics cause policy? Does policy cause politics? -- 3. Who makes decisions? How do they make decisions? Actors and institutions -- 4. Where does policy come from? The policy process -- 5. What should we do? The field of policy analysis -- 6. What have we done? Impact analysis and program evaluation -- 7. How does it work? Policy implementation -- 8. Whose values? Policy design -- 9. New directions in policy research -- 10. Do the policy sciences exist?
N2  - A thoroughly updated investigation of the key theories in contemporary public policy
ER  -