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The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy
Edited by Michael Moran, Martin Rein, and Robert E. Goodin
1,000 pages
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246x171mm
978-0-19-954845-3
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Paperback
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12 June 2008
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- The volume covers and critiques all the key approaches to public policy from the detached observer to the engaged practitioner
- Engagingly written by an illustrious team of international contributors
Public policy is the business end of political science. It is where theory meets practice in the pursuit of the public good. Political scientists approach public policy in myriad ways. Some approach the policy process descriptively, asking how the need for public intervention comes to be perceived, a policy response formulated, enacted, implemented, and, all too often, subverted, perverted, altered, or abandoned. Others approach public policy more prescriptively, offering politically-informed suggestions for how normatively valued goals can and should be pursued, either through particular policies or through alternative processes for making policy. Some offer their advice from the Olympian heights of detached academic observers, others as 'engaged
scholars' cum advocates, while still others seek to instil more reflective attitudes among policy practitioners themselves toward their own practices. The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy mines all these traditions, using an innovative structure that responds to the very latest scholarship. Its chapters touch upon institutional and historical sources and analytical methods, how policy is made, how it is evaluated and how it is constrained. In these ways, the Handbook shows how the combined wisdom of political science as a whole can be brought to bear on political attempts to improve the human condition.
Readership: Students and scholars of political science and adjacent disciplines;
especially those with an interest in public policy, law, business, economics, and geography
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Edited by Michael Moran, W. J. M. Mackenzie Professor of Government, University of Manchester, Martin Rein, Professor in Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Robert E. Goodin, Professor of Philosophy and Social and Political Theory, Australian National University and University of Essex Contributors:
Graham Allison, Harvard University.
Eugene Bardach, University of California, Berkeley.
Johanna Birckmayer, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE), Calverton, Maryland.
Davis B. Bobrow, University of
Pittsburgh.
Mark Bovens, Utrecht University.
Bea Cantillon, Universiteit Antwerpen.
Tom Christiansen, University of Oslo.
Neta C. Crawford, Brown University.
Peter deLeon, University of Colorado, Boulder.
John D. Donahue, Harvard University.
Yehezekel Dror, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
John Dryzek, Australian National University.
Amitai Etzioni, George Washington University.
John Forestor, Cornell University.
Richard Freeman, University of Edinburgh.
Barry Friedman, Brandeis University.
Archon Fung, Harvard University.
William Galston, University of Maryland.
Robert E. Goodin, Australian National University.
Maarten
Hajer, University of Amsterdam.
Dirk Haubrich, University College London.
Colin Hay, University of Birmingham.
Matthew Holden, Jr., University of Virginia.
Christopher Hood, University of Oxford.
Ellen Immergut, Humboldt University, Berlin.
Helen Ingram, University of California, Irvine.
Mark Kleiman, University of California, Los Angeles.
Rudolf Klein, University of Bath.
Sanneke Kuipers, University of Leiden.
David Laws, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Giandomenico Majone, European University Institute.
James G. March, Stanford University.
Theodore R. Marmor, Yale University.
Michael Moran, University of Manchester.
Johan P. Olsen, University of Oslo.
Edward Page, London School of Economics.
Frances Fox Piven, City University New York.
John Quiggin, University of Queensland.
Martin Rein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
R.A.W. Rhodes, Australian National University.
Anne L. Schneider, Arizona State University.
Colin Scott, London School of Economics.
Tom Sefton, London School of Economics.
Henry Shue, Cornell University and Merton College, Oxford.
Kevin B. Smith, University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
Lawrence E. Susskind, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Law School.
Steven N. Teles, Brandeis University.
Paul 't Hart, Swedish National
Defence College, Stockholm.
Carol Hirschon Weiss, Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Karel Van den Bosch, University of Antwerp.
Richard Wilson, Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
Christopher Winship, Harvard University.
Jonathan Wolff, University College, London.
Oran R. Young, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Richard J. Zeckhauser, Harvard University.
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"Spanning all of the major substantive areas and approaches in modern political science, this blockbuster set is a must-have for scholars and students alike. Each volume is crafted by a distinguished set of editors who have assembled critical, comprehensive, essays to survey accumulated knowledge and emerging issues in the study of politics. These volumes will help to shape the discipline for many years to come." - Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University "Judging from the editors, contributors, and topics covered, the forthcoming Oxford Handbooks of Political Science will be a landmark series...This is a series that not only
university libraries, but more specialized social science and political science libraries, will want to have on their shelves" - Robert O. Keohane, Professor of International Affairs, Princeton University "This extraordinary series offers 'state of the art' assessments that instruct, engage, and provoke. Both synoptic and directive, the fine essays across these superbly edited volumes reflect the ambitions and diversity of political science. No one who is immersed in the discipline's controversies and possibilities should miss the intellectual stimulation and critical appraisal these works so powerfully provide." - Ira Katznelson, Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History, Columbia University "Under the general editorship of
Robert E. Goodin, a large group of intellectually attractive authors has charted the entire field of political science in an unbiased multi-paradigmatic way. Minerva's owl would make a nice logo for this monumental collective work of the Oxford Handbooks: what moves us forward is looking back at what we know." - Claus Offe, Professor of Political Science, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin and Institute for Social Science, Humboldt University, Berlin. "a treasure-trove of useful informationGet this Handbook and its companion volumes...You will find it very thought-provoking!" - Energy Bar Association Update
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Part 1. Introduction
1: Robert E. Goodin, Michael Moran, and Martin Rein: The Public and its Policies
Part II. Institutional and Historical Background
2: Peter deLeon: The Historical Roots of the Field
3: Graham Allison: Emergence of Schools of Public Policy
4: Yehezkel Dror: Training for Policy-Makers
Part III. Modes of Policy Analysis
5: Christopher Winship: Policy Analysis as Puzzle-solving
6: John Forestor: Policy Analysis as Critical Listening
7: Richard Wilson: Policy Analysis as Policy Advice
8: Helen Ingram and Anne L. Schneider: Policy Analysis for Democracy
9: John Dryzek: Policy Analysis as Social Critique
Part IV. Producing Public Policy
10: Edward C. Page: The Origins of Policy
11: Giandomenico Majone: Agenda Setting
12: Maarten Hajer and David Laws: Policy Frame and Discourse
13: Lawrence Susskind: Arguing, Bargaining, and Getting Agreement
14: Bea Cantillon and Karel van den Bosch: Policy Impact
15: Mark Bovens, Paul 'tHart and Sanneke Kuipers: The Politics of Policy Evaluation
16: Eugene Bardach: Policy Dynamics
17: Richard Freeman: Learning in Public Policy
18: Martin Rein: Reframing Problematic Policies
Part V. Instruments of Policy
19: David Laws and Maarten Hajer: Policy in Practice
20: R.A.W. Rhodes: Policy Networks
21: Tom Christiansen: Smart Policy?
22: Christopher Hood: The Tools of Government in the Information Age
23: Barry L. Friedman: Policy Analysis as Organizational Analysis
24: John D. Donahue and Richard J. Zeckhauser: Public-Private Collaboration
Part VI. Constraints on Public Policy
25: John Quiggin: Economic Constraints on Public Policy
26: William A. Galston: Political Feasibility: Interests and Power
27: Ellen M. Immergut: Institutional Constraints on Policy
28: Davis B. Bobrow: Social & Cultural Factors
29: Colin Hay: Globalization and Public Policy
Part VII. Policy Intervention: Styles and Rationales
30: Tom Sefton: Distributive and Redistributive Policy
31: Mark Kleiman and Steven N. Teles: Market and Non-Market Failures
32: Colin Scott: Privatization and Regulatory Regimes
33: Archon Fung: Democratizing the Policy Process
Part VIII. Commending and Evaluating Public Policies
34: James G. March and Johan P. Olsen: The Logic of Appropriateness
35: Henry Shue: Ethical Dimensions of Public Policy
36: Kevin B. Smith: Economic Techniques
37: Jonathan Wolff and Dirk Haubrich: Economism and its Limits
38: Neta C. Crawford: Policy Modeling
39: Carol Hirschon Weiss and Johanna Birckmayer: Social Experimentation for Public Policy
IX. Public Policy, Old and New
40: Amitai Etzioni: The Unique Methodology of Policy Research
41: Oran R. Young: Choosing Governance Systems: A Plea for Comparative Research
42: Frances Fox Piven: The Politics of Retrenchment: the U.S. Case
43: Matthew Holden, Jr.: Reflections on how political scientists (and others) might think about energy and policy
44: Rudolf Klein and Theodore R. Marmor: Reflections on Policy Analysis: Putting it Together Again
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