This textbook presents and analyzes the main theories about policy-making, implementation and management in the modern state. Students are introduced to basic paradigms, salient theories and theoretical hypotheses. Public sector processes of decision-making and implementation in the modern state are approached with a variety of models from different fields such as public policy, policy implementation, management and evaluation as well as the public choice approach and neo-institutionalism. The book is intended for students and academics in public administration, public policy and political science.
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`Thorough, critical and stimulating... this book is a valuable contribution to the burgeoning literature on the rationale and future of the public sector' - The Service Industries Journal
`The book is a "good read", perhaps a "should read". One can be envious of his students at Oslo University. These chapters must have made excellent lectures' - Canadian Public Administration
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