Studying Public Policy: Policy Cycles and Policy Subsystems - Softcover

Howlett, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195409760 ISBN 13: 9780195409765

Publisher: Oxford University Press, Canada, 1995

Synopsis

This book surveys a wealth of British, American, and Canadian studies of public policy making, and proposes a model of the policy process which identifies relevant forces at work in the policy process and aids in the understanding of policy change and development.

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Review

"The authors offer an excellent approach to the study of the public policy-making process in the US using an applied problem-solving model....Goes beyond previous work to provice many helpful models for organizing a wide variety of approaches to the subject, including public choice, welfare economics, corporatism, pluralism, neoinstitutionalism, and statism."--Choice..".One of the most useful works to appear recently in the field of public policy...Provides a sophisticated guide to contemporary scholarship and conceptualization on diverse aspects of the policymaking endeavor...[The authors] succeed admirably in portraying the complexity and contingent nature of the process, as well as the rich inhtellectual tradition that is giving birth to policy science as its own unique discipline."--American political Science Review "The authors offer an excellent approach to the study of the public policy-making process in the US using an applied problem-solving model....Goes beyond previous work to provice many helpful models for organizing a wide variety of approaches to the subject, including public choice, welfare economics, corporatism, pluralism, neoinstitutionalism, and statism."--Choice .,."One of the most useful works to appear recently in the field of public policy...Provides a sophisticated guide to contemporary scholarship and conceptualization on diverse aspects of the policymaking endeavor...[The authors] succeed admirably in portraying the complexity and contingent nature of the process, as well as the rich inhtellectual tradition that is giving birth to policy science as its own unique discipline."--American political Science Review "The authors offer an excellent approach to the study of the public policy-making process in the US using an applied problem-solving model....Goes beyond previous work to provice many helpful models for organizing a wide variety of approaches to the subject, including public choice, welfare economics, corporatism, pluralism, neoinstitutionalism, and statism."--Choice , .."One of the most useful works to appear recently in the field of public policy...Provides a sophisticated guide to contemporary scholarship and conceptualization on diverse aspects of the policymaking endeavor...[The authors] succeed admirably in portraying the complexity and contingent nature of the process, as well as the rich inhtellectual tradition that is giving birth to policy science as its own unique discipline."--American political Science Review "The authors offer an excellent approach to the study of the public policy-making process in the US using an applied problem-solving model....Goes beyond previous work to provice many helpful models for organizing a wide variety of approaches to the subject, including public choice, welfareeconomics, corporatism, pluralism, neoinstitutionalism, and statism."--Choice.,."One of the most useful works to appear recently in the field of public policy...Provides a sophisticated guide to contemporary scholarship and conceptualization on diverse aspects of the policymaking endeavor...[The authors] succeed admirably in portraying the complexity and contingent nature ofthe process, as well as the rich inhtellectual tradition that is giving birth to policy science as its own unique discipline."--American political Science Review

About the Author

Michael Howlett is Associate Professor, Political Science, Simon Fraser University. He is co-author with M. Ramesh of The Political Economy of Canada: An Introduction (1992), and co-editor of K. Brownsey and Michael Howlett, The Provincial State (1992) and Michael Howlett and D. Laycock, The Puzzles of Power (1994). M. Ramesh, co-author with Michael Howlett of The Political Economy of Canada (1992), is Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at University of New England (Australia), and Visiting Professor and Chair of Public Policy, Department of Political Science, University of Western Ontario.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Canada
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0195409760
• ISBN 13: 9780195409765
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 247