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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

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.

This book provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of developments in public policy since 1979. Part 1 analyses changes in the structures and style of government under Thatcher and Major and the impact of the European Community on policy. Part 2 provides detailed assessments of major individual policy areas. A final concluding chapter assesses the impact of the Thatcher decade on policy and its legacy for the 1990s

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 book is an English version of a successful text* on public policy analysis originally written for policy practitioners in Switzerland and France. It presents a model for the analysis of public policy and includes examples of its application in everyday political-administrative situations. This English version introduces supplementary illustrations and examples from the United Kingdom

Cover -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Research Examples -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Why Compare Public Policies? -- The History of Comparative Public Policy -- Defining Comparative Public Policy Research -- Countries as Units of Comparison -- Other Bigger, Smaller and Different Units of Comparison -- Can Individual Case Studies be Comparative? -- Comparing Public Policies in an Interconnected World -- Summary -- 2 How Governments Act: Policy Instruments and Their Use -- Public Policy Resources -- How Governments Act: Policy Instruments -- Policy Instruments as Coercive and Direct -- Internal (and External) Policy Instruments -- Policy Instruments as Linked to Different Outputs -- Deductive Approaches to Policy Instruments -- The Approach Adopted in this Book -- Trends in the Use of Policy Instruments -- The Scope of Public Policies -- Public Policy Actors -- Public Policy Targets -- Conclusion -- Summary -- 3 Doing Comparative Public Policy -- Choices in Comparative Research -- Challenges for Comparative Public Policy Research -- The Practicalities of Comparative Research -- Conclusion -- Summary -- 4 Interests and Public Policy -- What are Interests? -- Different Interest-based Approaches -- Challenges for Researching Interests in Comparative Public Policy -- Conclusion -- Summary -- 5 Ideas and Public Policy -- What are Ideas? -- Ideas-based Approaches to Explaining Public Policy -- Attempts to Synthesize Different Approaches -- Challenges for Researching Ideas in Comparative Public Policy -- Conclusion -- Summary -- 6 Institutions and Public Policies -- What are Institutions? -- Institution-based Approaches to Explaining Public Policy -- Challenges for Researching Institutions in Comparative Public Policy -- Conclusion -- Summary.

"Seeks to review the most common and widely used frameworks in the study of policy analysis: Institutions, Groups and networks, Society and the economy, Individual interests and Ideas."--Publisher.

Sociology Reference Guide: Implementing Public Policy -- Contents -- Introduction -- Public Sociology -- Public Education Reform -- Immigration & -- U.S. Policy -- Welfare Reform Initiatives -- Homelessness -- Public Housing Policy -- Suburbanization -- Social Security -- Minimum Wage -- Child Health Policies -- Drug Policy -- Human Trafficking -- Agency Theory & -- Corporate Governance.

"Pharmaceutical Public Policy provides the understanding and framework required for effective organization, financing, and delivery of pharmaceutical products and services. It supplies an overview of the policy process as well as the roles of legislation and regulation in pharmaceutical policy. The book identifies the goals, objectives, and key policy issues of concern to stakeholders involved in the development of products, use of pharmaceuticals in healthcare, and administration of insurance programs by both the private and government sectors. Policy issues examined include the appropriateness of prescribing and patient adherence. Addressing questions of access, quality, and cost, the book considers the operation of the Affordable Care Act and Medicare Part D. It details the responsibilities of Federal providers of pharmaceutical care and private and public payers such as managed care organizations, pharmacy benefit managers, Medicare, and Medicaid. The book covers the policies and practices involved in promoting pharmaceutical products. It also considers pharmacoeconomics as a response to market failure. Finally, the book describes the market, the role of the manufacturer, drug shortages, and the responsibilities of the FDA."--

More and more policy issues involve issues that are explicitly values-based, yet public policy analysis tends to skirt around the question of values. Public Policy Values overcomes this reluctance by showing how public policies enable values-choices to be made, often without seeming to do so

Public participation is central to a wide range of current public policies - not only in the UK, but elsewhere in the developed and the developing world. There are substantial aspirations for what enhanced participation can achieve. This book offers a critical examination of both the discourse and practice of participation in order to understand the significance of this explosion in participatory forums, and the extent to which such practices represent a fundamental change in governance. Based on 17 case studies across a range of policy areas in two English cities, the authors address key issues such as: the way in which notions of the public are constructed; the motivation of participants; how the interests and identities of officials and citizens are negotiated within forums; and the ways in which institutions enable and constrain the development of participation initiatives. Much of the literature on public participation is highly normative. This book draws from detailed empirical work, theories of governance, of deliberative democracy and social movements to offer a nuanced account of the dynamics of participation and to suggest why experiences of this can be frustrating as well as transformative. This book will be essential reading for students of public and social policy and offers important insights for those directly engaged in developing participation initiatives across the public sector.

How can individuals best be encouraged to take more responsibility for their well-being and their environment or to behave more ethically in their business transactions? Across the world, governments are showing a growing interest in using behavioural economic research to inform the design of nudges which, some suggest, might encourage citizens to adopt beneficial patterns of behaviour. In this fascinating collection, leading academic economists, psychologists and philosophers reflect on how behavioural economic findings can be used to help inform the design of policy initiatives in the areas of health, education, the environment, personal finances and worker remuneration. Each chapter is accompanied by a shorter 'response' that provides critical commentary and an alternative perspective. This accessible book will interest academic researchers, graduate students and policy-makers across a range of disciplinary perspectives

Diese Dissertation besteht aus drei Aufsätzen aus den Bereichen Arbeitsmarktökonomie, berufliche Vorsorge und Sozialpolitik, die sich mit den Auswirkungen öffentlicher Gesetzgebung und makroökonomischer Schocks auf individuelle Verhaltensweisen befassen. Der erste Aufsatz behandelt die Auswirkungen der Einführung von Kinderbetreuungsgutscheinen auf das Arbeitsmarktverhalten in der Stadt Luzern. Er zeigt, dass der Wechsel von objektfinanzierter Kinderbetreuung zu subjektfinanzierter Subventionierung, gemeinsam mit Aufhebung der Rationierung im Markt für Kinderbetreuung, sowie dem Setzen von Arbeitsanreizen, dazu führten, dass sich sowohl Einkommen wie auch Arbeitsmarktpartizipation von Müttern mit Kleinkindern erhöht haben. Die Stadt Luzern hat somit zur verbesserten Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Familie beigetragen und gleichzeitig die wirtschaftliche Unabhängigkeit von finanziell schwächer gestellten Haushalten erhöht. Der zweite und dritte Aufsatz analysieren die Determinanten individueller Rentenentscheide der zweiten Säule. Der zweite Aufsatz befasst sich mit den Effekten von Besteuerung auf die Wahl zwischen Rente und Kapital. Die Analyse zeigt, dass es innerhalb der Schweiz grosse Unterschiede in der Besteuerung von Rente und Kapital gibt und dass Individuen stark auf Steueranreize reagieren wenn sie ihre Rentenentscheide treffen. Zum Beispiel beziehen Individuen einen Teil ihres Vermögens als Rente und den Rest als Kapital, um von tieferen Grenzsteuersätzen zu profitieren. Die Resultate dieser Analyse implizieren, dass die steuerliche Begünstigung der Rente, im Vergleich zum Kapital, Individuen dazu veranlassen könnte, vermehrt die Rente wählen. Dies wiederum würde der Altersarmut entgegenwirken, denn die lebenslange Rente ist eine der besten Möglichkeiten zur Absicherung finanzieller Risiken der Langlebigkeit. Der dritte Aufsatz untersucht die Konsequenzen der letzten Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise für die Nachfrage nach der Rente. Es zeigt sich, dass nach der Krise vermehrt die Rente gewählt wurde und dass jene Individuen, welche der Krise stärker ausgesetzt waren, im Durchschnitt öfter die Rente wählen als andere Individuen. Ein möglicher Grund für dieses veränderte Verhalten ist die Auswirkung der Krise auf die Risikopräferenz. Das Verständnis über die Auswirkung von makroökonomischen Geschehnissen auf individuelle Rentenentscheide ist relevant sowohl für politische Entscheidungsträger wie auch für Pensionskassen.