Public policy a new introduction - Knill, Christoph; Tosun, Jale (New York Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
Introduction -- The nature of the public policies -- The context for policy making: central institutions and actors -- Theoretical approaches to policy making -- Problem definition and agenda setting -- Decision making -- Implementation -- Evaluation -- Governance: a synoptic perspective on policy making -- Public policies beyond the nation state -- Policy change and policy convergence -- Conclusions: future challenges for public policy analysis.
Keywords: Political planning; Policy sciences; Public administration -- Decision making