Table of Contents

Part 1. Introduction
1: Robert E. Goodin, Michael Moran, and Martin Rein: The Public and its Policies
Part II. Institutional and Historical Background
2: Peter deLeon: The Historical Roots of the Field
3: Graham Allison: Emergence of Schools of Public Policy
4: Yehezkel Dror: Training for Policy-Makers
Part III. Modes of Policy Analysis
5: Christopher Winship: Policy Analysis as Puzzle-solving
6: John Forestor: Policy Analysis as Critical Listening
7: Richard Wilson: Policy Analysis as Policy Advice
8: Helen Ingram and Anne L. Schneider: Policy Analysis for Democracy
9: John Dryzek: Policy Analysis as Social Critique
Part IV. Producing Public Policy
10: Edward C. Page: The Origins of Policy
11: Giandomenico Majone: Agenda Setting
12: Maarten Hajer and David Laws: Policy Frame and Discourse
13: Lawrence Susskind: Arguing, Bargaining, and Getting Agreement
14: Bea Cantillon and Karel van den Bosch: Policy Impact
15: Mark Bovens, Paul 'tHart and Sanneke Kuipers: The Politics of Policy Evaluation
16: Eugene Bardach: Policy Dynamics
17: Richard Freeman: Learning in Public Policy
18: Martin Rein: Reframing Problematic Policies
Part V. Instruments of Policy
19: David Laws and Maarten Hajer: Policy in Practice
20: R.A.W. Rhodes: Policy Networks
21: Tom Christiansen: Smart Policy?
22: Christopher Hood: The Tools of Government in the Information Age
23: Barry L. Friedman: Policy Analysis as Organizational Analysis
24: John D. Donahue and Richard J. Zeckhauser: Public-Private Collaboration
Part VI. Constraints on Public Policy
25: John Quiggin: Economic Constraints on Public Policy
26: William A. Galston: Political Feasibility: Interests and Power
27: Ellen M. Immergut: Institutional Constraints on Policy
28: Davis B. Bobrow: Social & Cultural Factors
29: Colin Hay: Globalization and Public Policy
Part VII. Policy Intervention: Styles and Rationales
30: Tom Sefton: Distributive and Redistributive Policy
31: Mark Kleiman and Steven N. Teles: Market and Non-Market Failures
32: Colin Scott: Privatization and Regulatory Regimes
33: Archon Fung: Democratizing the Policy Process
Part VIII. Commending and Evaluating Public Policies
34: James G. March and Johan P. Olsen: The Logic of Appropriateness
35: Henry Shue: Ethical Dimensions of Public Policy
36: Kevin B. Smith: Economic Techniques
37: Jonathan Wolff and Dirk Haubrich: Economism and its Limits
38: Neta C. Crawford: Policy Modeling
39: Carol Hirschon Weiss and Johanna Birckmayer: Social Experimentation for Public Policy
IX. Public Policy, Old and New
40: Amitai Etzioni: The Unique Methodology of Policy Research
41: Oran R. Young: Choosing Governance Systems: A Plea for Comparative Research
42: Frances Fox Piven: The Politics of Retrenchment: the U.S. Case
43: Matthew Holden, Jr.: Reflections on how political scientists (and others) might think about energy and policy
44: Rudolf Klein and Theodore R. Marmor: Reflections on Policy Analysis: Putting it Together Again

About the Author

Michael Moran is W.J.M. Mackenzie Professor of Government at the University of Manchester.

Martin Rein is Professor in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Robert E. Goodin is Distinguished Professor of Social and Political Theory and Philosophy at the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University.

Reviews

`Judging by this collection on public policy...the policy community is on to a winner academically...I cannot live without the book.'
John Uhr, Australian Journal of Political Science 2007
`'Under the general editorship of Robert E. Goodin, a large group of intellectually attractive authors has charted the entire field of political science in an unbiased multi-paradigmatic way. Minerva's owl would make a nice logo for this monumental collective work of the Oxford Handbooks: what moves us forward is looking back at what we know.'
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Claus Offe, Professor of Political Science, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin and Institute for Social Science, Humboldt University, Berlin.
`'Spanning all of the major substantive areas and approaches in modern political science, this blockbuster set is a must-have for scholars and students alike. Each volume is crafted by a distinguished set of editors who have assembled critical, comprehensive, essays to survey accumulated knowledge and emerging issues in the study of politics. These volumes will help to shape the discipline for many years to come.''
Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University