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Contemporary Approaches to Public Policy

Theories, Controversies and Perspectives

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  • © 2016

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Part of the book series: International Series on Public Policy (ISPP)

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This book considers a range of contemporary approaches to public policy studies.  These approaches are based on a number of theoretical perspectives on decision-making, as well as alternative perspectives on policy instruments and implementation. The range of approaches covered in the volume includes punctuated equilibrium models, the advocacy-coalition framework, multiple streams approaches, institutional analyses, constructivist approaches, behavioural models, and the use of instruments as an approach to public policy.  The volume concludes with a discussion of fundamental issues of democracy in public policy. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • President of the International Public Po, University of Pittsburgh, USA, Pittsburgh, USA

    B. Guy Peters

  • General Secretary of the International P, LAET-ENTPE, University of Lyon, France, Lyon, France

    Philippe Zittoun

About the editors

B. Guy Peters is Maurice Falk Professor of American Government at the University of Pittsburgh, USA, and President of the International Public Policy Association.  He was founding co-editor of Governance and of the European Political Science Review, and is the author or editor of over 80 books in political science and public policy.

Philippe Zittoun is Research Professor of Political Science and General Secretary of the International Public Policy Association. His last book was The Political Process of Policymaking (Palgrave, 2014). He is on the editorial board of the Policy Studies JournalCritical Policy StudiesJournal of Policy Research and Policy and Society.

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