| 청구기호 |
H97 .S58 2017 |
| 형태사항 |
1 online resource (287 pages)
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| 언어 |
English |
| 내용 |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- List of Illustrations -- Chapter 1: Public Policy as a Concept and a Field (or Fields) of Study -- Defining Public Policy -- Defining the Field(s) of Public Policy Studies -- The Policy Sciences: A Very Short History of the Field of Policy Studies -- The Fracturing of the Policy Sciences -- Why Build When You Can Beg, Borrow, and Steal? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Does Politics Cause Policy? Does Policy Cause Politics? -- Good Policy Theory -- Policy Stages: A First Attempt at Policy Theory -- Stages Model: Descriptive or Predictive? -- Another "Theory" of Public Policy: Policy Typologies -- Typologies as Non-Mutually Exclusive Categories -- Conclusion: Where Do We Go from Here? -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Who Makes Decisions? How Do They Make Decisions? Actors and Institutions -- Bounded Rationality and Incrementalism -- Incrementalism in Practice -- Public Choice and the Tiebout Model -- The Tiebout Model: Citizens as Efficient Policymakers? -- Institutional Rational Choice -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Whose Values? Policy Design -- Objective Policy Design? -- The "Paradox" of Policy Design -- Social Constructions and Target Populations -- "Democratic" Values and Policy Design -- Narrative Policy Framework -- Testing Policy Design Theories? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Where Does Policy Come From? The Policy Process -- Process and Power -- Policy Subsystems and Issue Networks -- Advocacy Coalitions: Theory or Framework? -- Punctuated Equilibrium: A Descriptive Framework for Policy Change -- Assessing the Value of PET -- Garbage Cans and Policy Windows: A Multiple Streams Approach to Policy Change -- A Theory of Policy Change? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 6: What Should We Do? The Field of Policy Analysis -- The Rationalist Approach.
The Post-Positivist Approach -- Post-Positivist Methods -- An Emerging Middle Ground? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 7: What Have We Done? Impact Analysis and Program Evaluation -- Impact Analysis and Program Evaluation -- The Core Elements of Impact Analysis -- The Logic and Theory of Impact Analysis -- Program Theory -- Research Design in Impact Analysis -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 8: How Does It Work? Policy Implementation -- Three Generations of Implementation Studies -- First-Generation Implementation Studies: Understanding Implementation Is Important -- Second-Generation Studies: Understanding Implementation Is Complex -- Third-Generation Studies: Understanding Implementation Is . . . Impossible? -- A Fourth Generation? -- Conclusion -- Chapter 9: New Directions in Policy Research -- Policy Change, Irrationality, and Social Utility -- Policy (All) Decision Making Is Emotional -- An Evolutionary Approach to Policy Science -- Putting It All Together -- An Application to Criminal Justice Policy -- Conclusion: Answering the Call for Better Theory and Better Methodology -- Notes -- Chapter 10: Do the Policy Sciences Exist? -- The Theoretical Contributions of Policy Studies -- Key Problems -- Conclusion: Whither Policy Studies? -- Notes -- Appendix: Questions for Discussion or Comprehensive Exam Prep -- References -- Index.
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| 주제 |
Policy sciences.
Political planning.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General.-bisacsh.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration.-bisacsh.
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| 보유판 및 특별호 저록 |
Print version: Smith, Kevin B. The Public Policy Theory Primer Boulder : Taylor & Francis Group,c2016 9780813350059
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| ISBN |
9780429962905 |
