TY  - BOOK
AU  - Peters,B Guy
AU  - Pierre,Jon
TI  - Handbook of public policy
SN  - 0761940618 
AV  - H97 HAN 
PY  - 2006///
PB  - Thousand Oaks, Sage Publications
KW  - Political planning
KW  - Handbooks, manuals, etc
KW  - Policy sciences
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 	List of Contributors
		ix	
Introduction		1	(10)
	B. Guy Peters
	Jon Pierre
	Section 1: Making Policy
		11	(156)
	The Three Action Levels of Governance: Re-Framing the Policy Process Beyond the Stages Model
		13	(18)
	Peter L. Hupe
	Michael J. Hill
	The Policy Sciences: Past, Present, and Future
		31	(18)
	Peter DeLeon
	Christine R. Martell
	Behavioral Rationality and the Policy Processes: Toward A New Model of Organizational Information Processing
		49	(26)
	Bryan D. Jones
	Graeme Boushey
	Samuel Workman
	Policy Design: Ubiquitous, Necessary and Difficult
		75	(22)
	Davis B. Bobrow
	Networks and Bargaining in Policy Analysis
		97	(18)
	Peter Bogason
	Concepts and Theories of Horizontal Policy Management
		115	(24)
	B. Guy Peters
	Budgeting
		139	(12)
	Irene S. Rubin
	Implementation
		151	(16)
	Soren C. Winter
	Section 2: Substantive Policy Areas
		167	(228)
	Constitution and Rights
		169	(18)
	John Uhr
	Social Policy: Pensions
		187	(14)
	Helen Fawcett
	Social Policy: Is there a Crisis of the Welfare State?
		201	(18)
	Harold L. Wilensky
	Health Policy
		219	(12)
	Michael Moran
	Education Policy
		231	(18)
	Susan Marton
	Environmental Policy
		249	(16)
	Christoph Knill
	Cultural Policy
		265	(16)
	Kevin V. Mulcahy
	Tax Policy
		281	(12)
	B. Guy Peters
	Industrial Policy in Developed Nations
		293	(16)
	Richard D. Bingham
	Agriculture and Food
		309	(14)
	Wyn Grant
	Transportation and Infrastructure
		323	(16)
	Kenneth Button
	Foreign Policy
		339	(26)
	Walter Carlsnaes
	Criminal Justice Policy
		365	(16)
	Tim Newburn
	Privatisation by Divestment
		381	(14)
	Ian Thynne
	Section 3: Evaluating Policy
		395	(98)
	Evaluation Research
		397	(20)
	Evert Vedung
	Efficiency and Cost-Benefit Analysis
		417	(16)
	Aidan R. Vining
	David L. Weimer
	Ethics and Public Policy
		433	(10)
	Gary Bryner
	Performance and Performance Management
		443	(18)
	Geert Bouckaert
	John Halligan
	Argumentative Policy Analysis
		461	(20)
	Herbert Gottweis
	Disciplinary Perspectives
		481	(12)
	Jon Pierre
Index		493	
N2  - This is an invaluable survey of the major theories and approaches in this area of study and research. It explores the role of parties in the pressing contemporary problems of institutional design and democratic governance today
ER  -