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The stated purpose of this book is" to develop an analytical framework that will assist students
in studying public policy." It deals with conceptual and theoretical aspects of public policy, …

Several different explanations of policy change based on notions of learning have emerged
in the policy literature to challenge conventional conflict-oriented theories. These include …

Policy goals and means exist at different levels of abstraction and application and policies
can be seen to be comprised of a number of components or elements, not all of which are as …

… Referring to individual-analytical capacity, Michael Howlett in this volume argues all
governments need a significant number of officials with a modicum of analytical capacity, defined as …

Evidence‐based policy‐making represents a contemporary effort to reform or re‐structure
policy processes in order to prioritize evidentiary or data‐based decision‐making. Like earlier …

Political scienusis have studied policy instruments in order to better understand the linkages
between pohcy formulauon and policy implementation, and to gain insights into the public …

Policy design is an area of study in the field of public policy with a curious intellectual history.
It engendered a large literature in the 1980s and 1990s oriented to understanding design …

The objective of this collection of essays is to gain insights into the different national-level
state responses to COVID-19 around the world and the conditions that shaped them. The …

The new orthodoxy in studies of policy dynamics is that policy change occurs through a
homeostatic process. “Perturbations” occurring outside of an institutionalized policy subsystem, …