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The Public policy theory primer / Kevin B. Smith and Christopher W. Larimer

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Colorado : Westview Press, c2013Description: ix, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780813347493
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • H 97 .S58 2013
Contents:
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?
Summary: A thoroughly updated investigation of the key theories in contemporary public policy.
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Books Books National University - Manila LRC - Annex II General Circulation Gen. Ed. - CBA GC H 97 .S58 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.1 Available NULIB000011924

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?

A thoroughly updated investigation of the key theories in contemporary public policy.

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