Contemporary Approaches to Public Policy

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • B. Guy Peters, Philippe Zittoun

   Pages 1-14

3. The Advocacy Coalition Framework: An Approach for the Comparative Analysis of Contentious Policy Issues

   • Christopher M. Weible, Hank C. Jenkins-Smith

   Pages 15-34

4. Discursive Approaches to Public Policy: Politics, Argumentation, and Deliberation

   • Anna Durnova, Frank Fischer, Philippe Zittoun

   Pages 35-56

5. Institutionalism and Public Policy

   • B. Guy Peters

   Pages 57-72

6. Institutions and the Policy Process 2.0: Implications of the IAD Framework

   • Eduardo Araral, Mulya Amri

   Pages 73-93

7. The Transformation of Ideas: The Origin and Evolution of Punctuated Equilibrium Theory

   • Rebecca Eissler, Annelise Russell, Bryan D. Jones

   Pages 95-112

8. Behavioral Approaches: How Nudges Lead to More Intelligent Policy Design

   • Peter John

   Pages 113-131

9. Tools Approaches

   • Helen Margetts, Christopher Hood

   Pages 133-154

10. Bounded Rationality and Garbage Can Models of Policy-Making

    • Nikolaos Zahariadis

    Pages 155-174

11. Conclusion: Public Policy Theory and Democracy: The Elephant in the Corner

    • Helen Ingram, Peter deLeon, Anne Schneider

    Pages 175-200

12. Back Matter

    Pages 201-206

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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. 

• Decision-making
• Policy instruments
• Implementation
• Institutionalism
• Contentious policies

• 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

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 Journal, Critical Policy Studies, Journal of Policy Research and Policy and Society.

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