Public Policy and Private Interest: Ideas, Self-Interest and Ethics in Public Policy

Public Policy and Private Interest explains the complexities of the policy making process in a refreshingly clear way for students who are new to this subject. The key topics it explains are:

• How policy originates, is refined, legitimised, implemented, evaluated and terminated in the forms of theoretical models of the policy process;
• Which actors and institutions are most influential in determining the nature of policy;
• The values that shape the policy agenda such as ideology, instit...