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Traces the growth of interest in a policy focus in Britain during the 1970s and early 1980s, and its subsequent partial displacement by an emphasis on public management.

Introduces a special journal issue covering "Public Policy Yearbook 2013". Adapted from the source document.

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Overview of the public policy theories presented -- List of Abbreviations -- PART A -- /A1/ Public Interest and Public Policy -- WHAT IS MEANT BY PUBLIC INTEREST? -- WHAT IS MEANT BY PUBLIC POLICY? -- THE EMERGENCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC POLICY AS A SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINE: A HISTORY -- RELATION OF PUBLIC POLICY TO OTHER DISCIPLINES -- DEFINING PUBLIC POLICY AS A SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINE -- POLITY, POLICY, POLITICS -- PUBLIC POLICY AS SOCIAL PRACTICE -- FOUNDING FATHERS AND FOLLOWERS -- FUTURE PERSPECTIVES OF THE DISCIPLINE -- REVIEW QUESTIONS -- SOURCES -- /A2/ Values in Public Policy -- VALUES IN POLITY -- HUMAN RIGHTS -- POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES -- HOW INSTITUTIONS ARE SHAPED BY POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES -- VALUES IN POLICY -- THE CRITERION OF QUALITY AND SUSTAINABILITY OF LIFE -- VALUES IN POLITICS -- EXAMPLE THEORY: HISTORICAL INSTITUTIONALISM -- REVIEW QUESTIONS -- SOURCES -- /A3/ Governance -- THE CONCEPT OF GOVERNANCE -- DIMENSIONS OF GOVERNANCE -- MULTI-LEVEL GOVERNANCE -- GOVERNMENT, MARKET, THE CIVIC SECTOR – AND THE MEDIA -- GOVERNMENT -- MARKET -- CIVIC SECTOR -- EXAMPLE THEORY: CORPORATISM -- THE MARKET-GOVERNMENT RELATIONSHIP -- MEDIA -- REGULATORS UNDER CHANGE -- ACTORS' NETWORKS -- EXAMPLE THEORY: POLICY NETWORKS -- SOCIALLY PATHOLOGICAL FORMS OF REGULATION -- CAPACITIES OF GOVERNANCE IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD -- REVIEW QUESTIONS -- SOURCES -- /A4/ Actors and Institutions -- THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ACTORS AND INSTITUTIONS -- POLITICAL PARTIES -- GOVERNMENT, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION -- THINK-TANKS -- INSTITUTIONS -- EXAMPLE THEORY: ACTOR-CENTERED INSTITUTIONALISM -- ARENAS -- AGENDAS -- EXAMPLE THEORY: ACTORS GENERATING AGENDAS IN ARENAS (A-A-A MODEL) -- REVIEW QUESTIONS -- SOURCES -- /A5/ Public Policy Instruments -- INQUIRY -- PROGRAMMING DOCUMENTS -- LAW AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Purpose: The following syllabus is designed to introduce students to public policymaking at the national level of government. As designed, this course has the following goals associated with the process, issues, and institutions of national policymaking:1.Acquaint students with the political dynamics of the policy process— with particular focus on policy networks: those persons from the departments or agencies, members of Congress and their staff, and interest groups who interact on specific policy issues.2.Introduce the complexities of the specific policy issues that form the national agenda (e.g., trade, agriculture, welfare, taxes).3.Emphasize the importance of political institutions and their formal procedures—with particular stress on the budget process and presidential agenda setting.

We are pleased to present the sixth edition of the Public Policy Yearbook. Each year, dating back to its launch in 2009, we have used the content of the Yearbook to develop indicators for tracking developments in public policy scholarship. While we recognize that trends we can identify are only representative of the sample of Yearbook scholars, the patterns of scholarly focus have remained quite stable despite a more than doubling of our membership over the 2009-2014 period. In this introductory article, following a brief description of the Yearbook, we take a comparative look at how research trends in the Yearbook have evolved over the last six years. Adapted from the source document.