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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.

Intro -- Postmodern Public Policy -- Contents -- Preface -- BRIEF OF THE ARGUMENT -- PLAN OF THE BOOK -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. The System and its Nemesis -- ENCROACHMENTS -- HYPERRATIONALITY -- 2. The Mutation of Meaning -- SOME EXAMPLES OF THE DISCONNECT -- THE INSTABILITY OF LANGUAGE -- 3. Idea Contagion -- MEMETICS -- MEMETICS AND POSTMODERNISM -- THE PROSPECTS FOR RATIONAL SORTING -- 4. Contextualism -- SITUATION AND INTENTIONALITY -- PRACTICAL DISCOURSE -- A PERSPECTIVE ON CHANGE -- 5. Policy Inquiry -- EPISTEMOLOGY AS ABSTRACT UNIVERSALISM -- FACTS ARE WORD-SHAPED THINGS -- SELF-REFERENTIAL SYSTEMS -- PERSPECTIVAL SMALL t TRUTH -- 6. Democratic Discourse -- THE END OF UNIVERSALS? -- MONOLOGIC DISCOURSE: AN OXYMORON -- VIBRANT PLURALISM -- AN ETHOS OF DISCOURSE -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W.

Building on Knoepfel's previous book, Public Policy Analysis, this book offers a conceptually coherent view of ten public policy resources: force, law, personal, money, property rights, information, organisation, consensus, time and political support.

This study addresses the problem of optimal public policy timing and the relation to public health policy. Ways of recognizing this problem are presented, as well as the role of public policy timing, which is perceived or can be performed from various economic theories and concepts, mainly: regulation theory ; the concept of adaptive public policy ; and the theory of policy timing based on the concepts of option value and the transaction costs of the political process. The approach of methodological pluralism adopted by the authors made it possible to reach for various cognitive inspirations borrowed from numerous theoretical approaches, in order to create a comprehensive and coherent theoretical foundation for the purposes of analyzing the role of timing in applied public policies. Next, an attempt was made to define the role of public policy timing in the applied approach, i.e., the case of Polish policy towards the public hospital care sector. The final conclusion is that the role of timing is marginalized in Polish public health policy. The time dimension of its creation was ignored or treated as an exogenous event in relation to the rest of the policy formulation process. There is no political approach that adaptively links the right combination of resources and regulatory activity to timing for specific stages of development or growth in public hospital care.

There are many ethical dimensions of public policy. Public policy as actions to solve the collective problems includes directly or indirectly making ethical judgments. Public policy takes into account reconciliation of conflicting interests of individuals, groups, and organizations which is based on the values agreeing which influences on the objectives, principles, and styles of policy implementation. Ethical judgments about selecting more and less important as well as more positive problem solutions are present on all stages of policy cycle.

Defining public policy -- The study of public policy -- The public policymaking system -- Formal policy development -- Policy analysis and program evaluation -- The doctrinal approach to understanding public policy -- Economic policy -- Education policy -- Environmental policy -- Welfare policy -- Civil rights policy -- Foreign & defense policy -- Criminal justice policy -- Health care policy