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Key Concepts and Issues
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Making and Implementing Public Policy
Key Concepts and Issues
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Description
This brand new text examines power and inequalities and how these are central to our understanding of how policies are made and implemented. It introduces the concepts and theoretical approaches that underpin the study of the policy process, reflects upon key developments and applies these the practice of policy formulation and implementation.
Table of Contents
2. Perspectives on policy making
3. Power and policy
4. Key trends
5. Central government
6. Multi-level governance
7. Government at arms-length
8. Evaluating policies
9. Conclusions.
Product details
Published | 11 Oct 2017 |
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Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 321 |
ISBN | 9781350313422 |
Imprint | Red Globe Press |
Illustrations | 40 bw illus |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
About the contributors
Reviews
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This textbook provides a UK perspective on policy process and institutional factors. Bochel and Bochel (Univ. of Lincoln, UK) demonstrate depth in their knowledge of policy theories and applications in the UK. The major American policy process theories are covered in detail … The book is recommended for more advanced theory and comparative policy courses. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students through professionals.
M. L. Godwin, Choice, Vol. 55 (10)