Public Policy Making Reexamined: Reexamined

ISBN-13: 9781138531239 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 370 str.

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Opis

Public Policymaking Reexamined is now recognized as a fundamental treatise for public policy studies

Spis treści

Preface, Part I. The Mission, 1. The Problem and Its Setting, 2. The Scope, Significance, and Method of the Inquiry, Part II. A Framework for Evaluating Public Policymaking, 3. The Evaluation of Public Policymaking, 4. Net Output as the Primary Criterion for Ascertaining the Quality of Public Policymaking, 5. Secondary Criteria for Ascertaining the Quality of Public Policymaking, 6. Main Standards for Appraising Policymaking, Part III. A Diagnostic Evaluation of Contemporary Public Policymaking, 7. The Empiric Study of Public Policymaking, 8. Decisionmaking by Subunits, 9. Public Policymaking in Modern States, 10. Public Policymaking in Developing States, 11. An Evaluation and Diagnosis of the Present State of Public Policymaking, Part IV. An Optimal Model of Public Policymaking, 12. A Critical Survey of Normative Models of Public Policymaking, 13. The Major Characteristics of the Optimal Model, 14. The Phases of the Optimal Model, 15. The Structure of Optimal Public Policymaking, Part V. On Improving Public Policymaking, 16. The Major Improvements Needed in Public Policymaking, 17. Changes Needed in Knowledge, 18. Changes Needed in Personnel, 19. Changes Needed in Structure and Process Patterns, 20. Changes Needed in Input and Stipulated Output, 21. Changes Needed in the Environment, Part VI. The Choice: Shaping the Future or Muddling Through, 22. The Significance of Society’s Major Alternatives, Appendixes, Index

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