The policy process a reader - Hill, Michael (Prentice Hall/Harvester Wheatsheaf 1997., 1997)
Part I. The policy process and policy analysis: Introduction -- Perspectives on policy analysis / Ian Gordon, Janet Lewis and Ken Young -- Theory and practice in public policy and administration / Martin Minogue -- Policy analysis: Models and approaches / Bill Jenkins.

Part II. Theories of the state: Introduction -- Three distinctive views of power compared / Steven Lukes -- The evolution of pluralist theory / Gregor McLennan -- The evolution of Marxist approaches to state organization / Patrick Dunleavy and Brendan O'Leary -- Policy networks / M.J. Smith -- The economic theory of bureaucracy / Gordon Tullock -- The bureau-shaping model / Patrick Dunleavy -- Bringing the state back in / Theda Skocpol -- Institutional perspectives on political institutions / James G. March and Johan P. Olsen.

Part III. The policy process: Introduction -- The artificial debate between rationalist and incrementalist models of decision making / Gilbert Smith and David May -- Political rationality or incrementalism? / Robert Gregory -- Master of fate or victim of circumstance? The exercise of corporate power in environmental policy-making / Andrew Blowers.

Part IV. Implementation: Introduction -- Why 'perfect implementation' is unattainable / Brian Hogwood and Lewis Gunn -- Implementation structures: a new unit of administrative analysis / Benny Hjern and David O. Porter -- Organizational models of social program implementation / Richard E. Elmore -- Top-down and bottom-up approaches to implementation research / Paul A. Sabatier -- Implementation, accountability and trust / Jan-Erik Lane.

Part V. Organizations, rules and bureaucrats: Introduction -- Rational-legal authority and bureaucracy / Max Weber -- The development of management thought / Chris Pollitt -- Collaboration in social welfare: A framework for analysis / Bob Hudson -- Structure and action as constructs in the practice of public administration / Pieter Degeling and Hal Colebatch.
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Keywords: Policy sciences; Bureaucracy; Decision making