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Studies of public policymaking all to often apply general assumptions about political life to specific case studies. In Studying Public Policy, Michael Howlett and M. Ramesh argue that this approach does not do justice to the wealth of empirical studies pointing to a different set of factors responsible for general patterns of policymaking.
Following a discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of the existing approaches, the authors inventory current British, American and Canadian literature on policy actors, institutions, and instruments, and derive from that inventory the elements of an inductive, middle-range theory of public policymaking. The model developed in the book not only helps to unify theoretical and empirical studies, but identifies critical elements of the process of policy change of interest not only to specialists but also to practitioners in the field.
Following a discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of the existing approaches, the authors inventory current British, American and Canadian literature on policy actors, institutions, and instruments, and derive from that inventory the elements of an inductive, middle-range theory of public policymaking. The model developed in the book not only helps to unify theoretical and empirical studies, but identifies critical elements of the process of policy change of interest not only to specialists but also to practitioners in the field.
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Michael Howlett is Associate Professor, Political Science, Simon Fraser University. He is co-author with M. Ramesh of The Political Economy of Canada: An Introduction (1992), and co-editor of K. Brownsey and Michael Howlett, The Provincial State (1992) and Michael Howlett and D. Laycock, The Puzzles of Power (1994). M. Ramesh, co-author with Michael Howlett of The Political Economy of Canada (1992), is Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at University of New England (Australia), and Visiting Professor and Chair of Public Policy, Department of Political Science, University of Western Ontario.
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"The authors offer an excellent approach to the study of the public policy-making process in the US using an applied problem-solving model....Goes beyond previous work to provice many helpful models for organizing a wide variety of approaches to the subject, including public choice, welfare economics, corporatism, pluralism, neoinstitutionalism, and statism."--Choice
"...One of the most useful works to appear recently in the field of public policy...Provides a sophisticated guide to contemporary scholarship and conceptualization on diverse aspects of the policymaking endeavor...[The authors] succeed admirably in portraying the complexity and contingent nature of the process, as well as the rich inhtellectual tradition that is giving birth to policy science as its own unique discipline."--American political Science Review
Michael Howlett is Associate Professor, Political Science, Simon Fraser University. He is co-author with M. Ramesh of The Political Economy of Canada: An Introduction (1992), and co-editor of K. Brownsey and Michael Howlett, The Provincial State (1992) and Michael Howlett and D. Laycock, The Puzzles of Power (1994). M. Ramesh, co-author with Michael Howlett of The Political Economy of Canada (1992), is Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at University of New England (Australia), and Visiting Professor and Chair of Public Policy, Department of Political Science, University of Western Ontario.
"The authors offer an excellent approach to the study of the public policy-making process in the US using an applied problem-solving model....Goes beyond previous work to provice many helpful models for organizing a wide variety of approaches to the subject, including public choice, welfare economics, corporatism, pluralism, neoinstitutionalism, and statism."--Choice
"...One of the most useful works to appear recently in the field of public policy...Provides a sophisticated guide to contemporary scholarship and conceptualization on diverse aspects of the policymaking endeavor...[The authors] succeed admirably in portraying the complexity and contingent nature of the process, as well as the rich inhtellectual tradition that is giving birth to policy science as its own unique discipline."--American political Science Review
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0195409760
- ISBN 13 9780195409765
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages248
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