Analyzing Public Policy

The fully revised and updated new edition of this textbook continues to provide the most accessible overview of the main approaches in the study of public policy. It seeks to review the most common and widely used frameworks in the study of policy analysis:

• institutions
• groups and networks
• society and the economy
• individual interests
• ideas.

The book explains each one, offers constructive criticisms and explores their claims in the light of a variety of American, British and European examp...