Michael Moran, Martin Rein, Robert E. Goodin

The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science is a ten-volume set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of political science. Each volume focuses on a particular part of the discipline, with volumes on Public Policy, Political Theory, Political Economy, Contextual Political Analysis, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Law and Politics, Political Behavior, Political
Institutions, and Political Methodology. The project as a whole is under the General Editorship of Robert E. Goodin, with each volume being edited by a distinguished international group of specialists in their respective fields. The books set out not just to report on the discipline, but to shape it. The series will be an indispensable point of reference for
anyone working in political science and adjacent disciplines.
Public policy is the business end of political science. It is where theory meets practice in the pursuit of the public good. Political scientists approach public policy in myriad ways. Some approach the policy process descriptively, asking how the need for public intervention comes to be perceived, a policy response formulated, enacted, implemented, and, all too often, subverted, perverted, altered, or abandoned. Others approach public policy more prescriptively, offering politically-informed
suggestions for how normatively valued goals can and should be pursued, either through particular policies or through alternative processes for making policy. Some offer their advice from the Olympian heights of detached academic observers, others as 'engaged scholars' cum advocates, while still
others seek to instil more reflective attitudes among policy practitioners themselves toward their own practices. The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy mines all these traditions, using an innovative structure that responds to the very latest scholarship. Its chapters touch upon institutional and historical sources and analytical methods, how policy is made, how it is evaluated and how it is constrained. In these ways, the Handbook shows how the combined wisdom of political science
as a whole can be brought to bear on political attempts to improve the human condition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 784
• Erscheinungstermin: Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 25 cm
• Gewicht: 1775g
• ISBN-13: 9780199269280
• ISBN-10: 0199269289
• Artikelnr.: 20784224

Autorenporträt

Edited by Michael Moran, W. J. M. Mackenzie Professor of Government, University of Manchester, Martin Rein, Professor in Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Robert E. Goodin, Professor of Philosophy and Social and Political Theory, Australian National University

Contributors: Graham Allison, Harvard University. Eugene Bardach, University of California, Berkeley. Johanna Birckmayer, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE), Calverton, Maryland. Davis B. Bobrow, University of Pittsburgh. Mark Bovens, Utrecht University. Bea Cantillon, Universiteit Antwerpen. Tom Christiansen, University of Oslo. Neta C. Crawford, Brown University. Peter deLeon, University of Colorado, Boulder. John D. Donahue, Harvard University. Yehezkel Dror, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. John Dryzek, Australian National University. Amitai Etzioni, George Washington University. John Forestor, Cornell University. Richard Freeman, University of Edinburgh. Barry Friedman, Brandeis University. Archon Fung, Harvard University. William Galston, University of Maryland. Robert E. Goodin, Australian National University. Maarten Hajer, University of Amsterdam. Dirk Haubrich, University College London. Colin Hay, University of Birmingham. Matthew Holden, Jr., University of Virginia. Christopher Hood, University of Oxford. Ellen Immergut, Humboldt University, Berlin. Helen Ingram, University of California, Irvine. Mark Kleiman, University of California, Los Angeles. Rudolf Klein, University of Bath. Sanneke Kuipers, University of Leiden. David Laws, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Giandomenico Majone, European University Institute. James G. March, Stanford University. Theodore R. Marmor, Yale University. Michael Moran, University of Manchester. Johan P. Olsen, University of Oslo. Edward Page, London School of Economics. Frances Fox Piven, City University New York. John Quiggin, University of Queensland. Martin Rein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. R.A.W. Rhodes, Australian National University. Anne L. Schneider, Arizona State University. Colin Scott, London School of Economics. Tom Sefton, London School of Economics. Henry Shue, Cornell University and Merton College, Oxford. Kevin B. Smith, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Lawrence E. Susskind, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Law School. Steven N. Teles, Brandeis University. Paul 't Hart, Swedish National Defence College, Stockholm. Carol Hirschon Weiss, Harvard Graduate School of Education. Karel Van den Bosch, University of Antwerp. Richard Wilson, Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Christopher Winship, Harvard University. Jonathan Wolff, University College, London. Oran R. Young, University of California, Santa Barbara. Richard J. Zeckhauser, Harvard University.