Public Policy Investment: Priority-setting and Conditional Representation in British Statecraft

Covering the period 1971-2000, this volume develops a new approach to 'public policy investment'. It shows how governments are like investors who act of on behalf of the public and how enhance their chances of re-election by managing a portfolio of public policies.

Anthony Bertelli, Professor of Public Policy and Law and C.C. Crawford Chair in Management and Performance; Professor of Public Policy Analysis, University of Southern California; University of Birmingham,Peter John, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, University College London

Anthony M. Bertelli is Professor of Public Policy and Law and holds the C.C. Crawford Chair in Management and Performance at the University of Southern California. He is also Professor of Public Policy Analysis at the University of Birmingham. His work explores the role of political institutions in shaping public policy outcomes and he is author of Madison's Managers: Public Administration and the Constitution (2006) and The Political Economy of Public Sector Governance (2012).


Peter John is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at University College London. He is known for his work on public policy, agenda-setting, and local politics. He is author of Analyzing Public Policy (2012), Local Governance in Western Europe (2001), Making Policy Work (2012), and Exits, Voices and Social Investment (2012). He is interested in how to involve citizens in public policy and management, and in the use of randomized controlled trials, many of which were presented in Nudge, Nudge, Think, Think: Experimenting with Ways to Change Civic Behaviour (2011). Professors Bertelli and John edit the Journal of Public Policy and are co-authors of Policy Agendas in British Politics (2013).