Studying Public Policy - Anthony Perl

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Résumé :

• Acknowledgments
  


• Part I - Methodology, Theory, and Context in Public Policy Research
  


• Chapter 1 Studying Public Policy: Why and How


• Public Policy Defined


• Methodological Considerations for Studying Public Policy


• The Policy Cycle Framework: A Problem-Solving Model of the Policy Process


• The Need for Public Policy Capacity


• Identifying and Studying Policy Styles and Policy Regimes


• Overview of the Book


• Study Questions


• Further Readings
  


• Chapter 2 Understanding Public Policy: Theoretical Approaches


• Evolution of the Policy Sciences


• Approaches to Public Policy Analysis: Positivism and Post-Positivism Revisited


• Positivist Approaches to Policy Analysis


• Post-Positivist Approaches to Policy Analysis


• Reconciling the Positivist and Post-Positivist Approaches


• Approaches to Public Policy Studies: Multi-Level, Multi-Disciplinary


• Public Choice


• Class Analysis


• Pluralism


• Corporatism


• Neo-institutionalism


• Statism


• Conclusion


• Study Questions


• Further Readings
  


• Chapter 3 The Policy Context: States and Societies


• Institutions, Ideas, and Actors in Public Policy


• The Role of Policy Ideas: Paradigms, Public Sentiments, Symbolic Frames, and Program Ideas


• The Political-Economic Context


• Capitalism


• Liberalism


• Democracy


• Policy-Making in the Liberal-Democratic Capitalist State


• Political-Economic Structures and Public Policy-Making


• Political Systems and Public Policy


• Domestic Policy Actors


• The International System and Public Policy


• Policy Subsystems and Policy Regimes: Integrating Institutions, Ideas, and Actors


• Policy Subsystems


• Conclusion


• Study Questions


• Further Readings
  


• Part II - The Five Stages of the Policy Cycle
  


• Chapter 4 Agenda-Setting: Definition and Problematics


• What Is Agenda-Setting?


• Issue Initiation


• Issue Expansion


• Agenda-Entrance


• The Problematics of Agenda-Setting: Issue-Attention Dynamics


• Issue-Attention in Governments and Society


• Problems versus Conditions


• Problem Tractability


• Other Dilemmas of Policy Problems


• The Substance of Agenda-Setting: Problem Construction


• Objective Construction: Convergence Theory and Political Business Cycles


• Subjective Construction: Ideas and Discourses


• Gauging Problem Severity: Indicators and Measures


• Actors and Tasks in Agenda-Setting


• Epistemic Communities


• Instrument Constituencies


• Advocacy Coalitions


• Policy Entrepreneurs and Policy Brokers


• Theories of Agenda-Setting: Ideas, Actors, and Structures


• Funnels of Causality


• Modes of Agenda-Setting


• The Multiple Streams Model and Its Evolution


• Conclusion: A Policy Subsystem Conception of Agenda-Setting


• Study Questions


• Further Readings
  


• Chapter 5 Policy Formulation: Identifying and Assessing Policy Alternatives


• What Is Policy Formulation?


• The Problematics of Policy Formulation
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Biographie:
Michael Howlett is Canada Research Chair in Policy and Innovation for Climate Change and Burnaby Mountain Chair and Professor of Political Science at Simon Fraser University.

M. Ramesh is UNESCO Chair of Social Policy Design in Asia and a Professor at the Lew Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore.

Anthony Perl is a Professor and the Director of the Urban Studies Program at Simon Fraser University.

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Sommaire:
Studying Public Policy develops an analytical framework that will enable students to study public policy more effectively. The first of the books three parts examines different approaches to studying public policy by providing inventories of the relevant types of policy actors, structures, and ideas involved in public policy-making. Part Two then breaks down the policy process into the five sub-processes or sub-stages set out in the policy cycle model and analyzes the variables affecting each stage. Part Three concludes the text with a general commentary on the nature of policy change and stability....