Studying Public Policy
Policy Cycles and Policy Subsystems
Third Edition
ISBN13: 9780195428025ISBN10: 0195428021
Paperback,
336 pages
May 2009,
In Stock
Price:
$55.00 (06)Description
Studying Public Policy examines three dimensions of efforts to engage and resolve public problems: policy actors, institutions, and ideas. Using this focus, the book overviews past efforts to understand public policy-making, outlines the different stages of the policy-making process, and discusses the principal elements and patterns of policy dynamics. Developing an analytical framework of the subject, the text examines the theoretical and conceptual foundations of, and approaches used in, policy sciences giving students a solid basis for understanding public policy. This edition has been fully updated with new developments in the field and revised with clear language and an easy-to-understand structure, making it the most current, student-friendly resource available.Features
- Text is fully updated to incorporate literature new in the field and the experiences of the authors in teaching situations.
- Includes new pedagogical devices that further aid student understanding of material in chapters.
- Text has been streamlined with clear language and an easier to understand structure to better suit undergraduate students.
- Inclusive terminology to highlight the similarities between policy studies and policy science in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada.
- Bibliography serves as a fantastic quick resource for advanced students while the accessible writing style employed in the text won't alienate new students.
About the Author(s)
Michael Howlett is Burnaby Mountain Chair and Professor of Political Science at Simon Fraser University.
M. Ramesh is an Associate 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.
