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9780136823605

The Policy Making Process

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  • ISBN13:

    9780136823605

  • ISBN10:

    0136823602

  • Edition: 3rd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1993-01-01
  • Publisher: Prentice Hall

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Summary

Emphasizing the policy-making role of ordinary citizens, this text challenges the assumption that political elites and policy analysis professionals hold the keys to improved social problem solving. It covers the challenges facing policy making; conventional government and politics; broader influences on policy making; and improving policy making. For professionals in the fields of public policy analysis and formulation.

Table of Contents

I. INTRODUCTION.

1. Challenges Facing Policy Making.
2. The Limits of Analysis.
3. Incrementalism and the Intelligence of Democracy.

II. CONVENTIONAL GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS.

4. The Imprecision of Voting.
5. Elected Functionaries.
6. Bureaucracy.
7. Interest Groups in Policy Making.

III. BROADER INFLUENCES ON POLICY MAKING.

8. The Privileged Position of Business.
9. Political Inequality.
10. Impaired Inquiry.

IV. IMPROVING POLICY MAKING.

11. Making the Most of Analysis.
12. More Democracy?

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