Understanding Public Policy: Theories and Issues

Preface.- 1. Introduction to Policy and Policymaking.- 2. What is Policy and Policymaking?.- 3. Power and Public Policy.- 4. Bounded Rationality and the Psychology of Policymaking.- 5. Institutions and New Institutionalism.- 6. Structures, Environments, and Complex Systems.- 7. Collective Action Problems in Public Policy.- 8. Multi-level Governance and Multi-centric Policymaking.- 9. Punctuated Equilibrium Theory.- 10. The Advocacy Coalition Framework.- 11. Ideas and 'Multiple Streams' Analysis.- 12. Policy Learning and Transfer.- 13. Conclusion: policy theory as accumulated wisdom.

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Paul Cairney (2011). "Understanding Public Policy: Theories and Issues".