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Title: Studying Public Policy: Policy Cycles and Policy Subsystems by Michael Howlett, M. Ramesh ISBN: 0-19-540976-0 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00

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Summary: Excellent approach to public policy making in the U.S.
Comment: This text offers an excellent approach to the study of the public policy-making process in the U.S. using an applied problem-solving model. It provides brief but insightful glimpses into the history of the field. It widely surveys current thinking and offers good syntheses of past work, e.g., Charles Jones' An Introduction to the Study of Public Policy, James Anderson's Public Policy-Making: An Introduction, and Thomas Dye's Understanding Public Policy. This text, however, goes beyond previous work to provide many helpful models for organizing a wide variety of approaches to the subject, including public choice, welfare economics, corporatism, pluralism, neo-institutionalism, and statism. These models, often displayed in the form of easily understood charts or tables, reveal the basic assumptions underlying the myriad of approaches to the subject, e.g., inductive versus deductive theory construction, and individual, group, or institutional level of analysis. This text offers a very useful taxonomy of typical policy styles with respect to specific areas of government activity to explain the differences between incremental and non-incremental policy change (the latter termed paradigm shifts). Finally, the authors recognize the complexity of both the policy-making process itself and the study of it

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