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Peter-3383-Prelims.qxd 6/8/2006 7:36 PM Page i HANDBOOK of PUBLIC POLICY Peter-3383-Prelims.qxd 6/8/2006 7:36 PM Page ii Peter-3383-Prelims.qxd 6/8/2006 7:36 PM Page iii HANDBOOK of PUBLIC POLICY Edited by B. GUY PETERS and JON PIERRE SAGE Publications London ●Thousand Oaks ● New Delhi Peter-3383-Prelims.qxd 6/8/2006 7:36 PM Page iv Introduction © B.Guy Peters and Jon Pierre 2006 Chapter 15 © Kevin V.Mulcahy 2006 Chapter 1 © Peter L.Hupe and Michael J.Hill 2006 Chapter 16 © B.Guy Peters 2006 Chapter 2 © Peter DeLeon and Christine R. Chapter 17 © Richard D.Bingham 2006 Martell 2006 Chapter 18 © Wyn Grant 2006 Chapter 3 © Bryan D.Jones,Graeme Boushey and Chapter 19 © Kenneth Button 2006 Samuel Workman 2006 Chapter 20 © Walter Carlsnaes 2006 Chapter 4 © Davis B.Bobrow 2006 Chapter 21 © Tim Newburn 2006 Chapter 5 © Peter Bogason 2006 Chapter 22 © Ian Thynne 2006 Chapter 6 © B.Guy Peters 2006 Chapter 23 © Evert Vedung 2006 Chapter 7 © Irene S.Rubin 2006 Chapter 24 © Aiden R.Vining and David Chapter 8 © Søren C.Winter 2006 L.Weimer 2006 Chapter 9 © John Uhr 2006 Chapter 25 © Gary Bryner 2006 Chapter 10 © Helen Fawcett 2006 Chapter 26 © Geert Bouckaert and John Chapter 11 © Harold L.Wilensky 2006 Halligan 2006 Chapter 12 © Michael Moran 2006 Chapter 27 © Herbert Gottweis 2006 Chapter 13 © Susan Marton 2006 Chapter 28 © Jon Pierre 2006 Chapter 14 © Christoph Knill 2006 First published 2006 Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes ofresearch or private study,or criticism or review,as permitted under the Copyright,Designs and Patents Act,1988,this publication may be reproduced,stored or transmitted in any form,or by any means, only with the prior permission in writing ofthe publishers,or in the case ofreprographic reproduction,in accordance with the terms oflicences issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency. 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SAGE Publications Ltd 1 Oliver’s Yard 55 City Road London EC1Y 1SP SAGE Publications Inc. 2455 Teller Road Thousand Oaks,California 91320 SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd B-42,Panchsheel Enclave Post Box 4109 New Delhi 110 017 British Library Cataloguing in Publication data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN-10 0-7619-4061-8 ISBN-13 978-0-7619-4061-6 Library ofCongress Control Number available Typeset by C&M Digitals (P) Ltd.,Chennai,India Printed in Great Britain by Cromwell Press Ltd,Trowbridge,Wiltshire Printer on paper from sustainable resources Peter-3383-Prelims.qxd 6/8/2006 7:36 PM Page v Contents List of Contributors ix Introduction 1 B.Guy Peters and Jon Pierre Section 1:Making Policy 11 1 The Three Action Levels of Governance:Re-framing the Policy Process Beyond the Stages Model 13 Peter L.Hupe and Michael J.Hill 2 The Policy Sciences:Past,Present,and Future 31 Peter DeLeon and Christine R.Martell 3 Behavioral Rationality and the Policy Processes:Toward A New Model of Organizational Information Processing 49 Bryan D.Jones,Graeme Boushey and Samuel Workman 4 Policy Design:Ubiquitous,Necessary and Difficult 75 Davis B.Bobrow 5 Networks and Bargaining in Policy Analysis 97 Peter Bogason 6 Concepts and Theories of Horizontal Policy Management 115 B.Guy Peters 7 Budgeting 139 Irene S.Rubin 8 Implementation 151 Søren C.Winter Section 2:Substantive Policy Areas 167 9 Constitution and Rights 169 John Uhr Peter-3383-Prelims.qxd 6/8/2006 7:36 PM Page vi vi HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC POLICY 10 Social Policy:Pensions 187 Helen Fawcett 11 Social Policy:Is there a Crisis of the Welfare State? 201 Harold L.Wilensky 12 Health Policy 219 Michael Moran 13 Education Policy 231 Susan Marton 14 Environmental Policy 249 Christoph Knill 15 Cultural Policy 265 Kevin V.Mulcahy 16 Tax Policy 281 B.Guy Peters 17 Industrial Policy in Developed Nations 293 Richard D.Bingham 18 Agriculture and Food 309 Wyn Grant 19 Transportation and Infrastructure 323 Kenneth Button 20 Foreign Policy 339 Walter Carlsnaes 21 Criminal Justice Policy 365 Tim Newburn 22 Privatisation by Divestment 381 Ian Thynne Section 3:Evaluating Policy 395 23 Evaluation Research 397 Evert Vedung 24 Efficiency and Cost-Benefit Analysis 417 Aidan R.Vining and David L.Weimer Peter-3383-Prelims.qxd 6/8/2006 7:36 PM Page vii CONTENTS vii 25 Ethics and Public Policy 433 Gary Bryner 26 Performance and Performance Management 443 Geert Bouckaert and John Halligan 27 Argumentative Policy Analysis 461 Herbert Gottweis 28 Disciplinary Perspectives 481 Jon Pierre Index 493 Peter-3383-Prelims.qxd 6/8/2006 7:36 PM Page viii Peter-3383-Prelims.qxd 6/8/2006 7:36 PM Page ix List of Contributors Richard D.Binghamis a Professor of Public Administration and Urban Studies at the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs,Cleveland State University, USA. Davis B.Bobrow is Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs,University of Pittsburgh,USA. Peter Bogason is Professor of Public Administration at the Department of Social Sciences,Roskilde University,Denmark. Geert Bouckaert is Professor and Director of the Public Management Institute, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,Belgium. Graeme Bousheyis a Graduate Research Fellow in the Center for American Politics and Public Policy at the University ofWashington,USA. Gary Bryner is Professor at the Department of Political Science, Brigham Young University,USA Kenneth Buttonis Professor ofPublic Policy at the School ofPublic Policy,George Mason University,USA Walter Carlsnaes is Professor of Political Science at the Department of Government,Uppsala University,Sweden. Peter DeLeon is Professor at the Graduate School of Public Affairs,University of Colorado at Denver,USA. Helen Fawcett is Lecturer at the Department of Government, University of Strathclyde,UK. Herbert Gottweisis Professor at the Department ofPolitical Science,University of Vienna,Austria. Wyn Grantis Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University ofWarwick,UK John Halliganis Professor at the School of Management and Policy,University of Canberra,Australia.
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