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  • Policy Learning and Policy Failure

    Series series New Perspectives in Policy and Politics
    First published as a special issue of Policy & Politics, this updated volume explores policy failures and the valuable opportunities for learning that they offer.Policy successes and failures offer important lessons for public officials, but often they do not learn from these experiences. The studies in this volume investigate this broken link. The book defines policy learning and failure and ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Handbook of Policy Advice

    Series series Handbooks of Research on Public Policy series
    This timely Handbook examines the background, organization and evolution of policy advice and expertise in contemporary government. Chapters in the book set out and critically re-evaluate conventional assumptions about the role of policy advisors and advice in policy-making in an era when increasing new technologies, political polarization and contestation have mounted challenges to traditional ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Designing Public Policies

    Principles and Instruments

    Series series Routledge Textbooks in Policy Studies
    The third edition of this highly regarded book provides a concise and accessible introduction to the principles and elements of policy design in contemporary governance. It examines in detail the range of substantive and procedural policy instruments that together comprise the toolbox from which governments choose tools to resolve policy problems and the principles and practices that lead to their ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Policy Design Primer

    Choosing the Right Tools for the Job

    Series series Routledge Textbooks in Policy Studies
    The Policy Design Primer is a concise and practical introduction to the principles and elements of policy design in contemporary governance. Guiding students through the study of the instruments used by governments in carrying out their tasks, adapting to, and altering their environments, this book:Examines the range of substantive and procedural policy instruments that together comprise the ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Bad Public Policy

    Malignity, Volatility and the Inherent Vices of Policymaking

    Series series Elements in Public Policy
    Policy studies assume the existence of baseline parameters – such as honest governments doing their best to create public value, publics responding in good faith, and both parties relying on a policy-making process that aligns with the public interest. In such circumstances, policy goals are expected to be produced through mechanisms in which the public can articulate its preferences and policy ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Studying Public Policy

    Connecting Theory to Practice

    Now in its fifth edition, this established text offers a comprehensive synthesis of policymaking theory and analysis for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students. The book integrates foundational and contemporary scholarship through global examples that develop comparative analytical skills. Real-world case examples extend theoretical insights into practice. Its three-part structure builds ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Dictionary of Policy Design

    This authoritative Dictionary provides a detailed guide to the terminology and vocabulary used in policy design. Unpacking this crucial area of policy making, it outlines the topics that are central to the theoretical and practical aspects of the discipline.With an accessible structure, the Dictionary showcases extensive lists of policy tools, actors involved in design work and processes such as ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Canadian Public Policy

    Selected Studies in Process and Style

    Studies of public policy in Canada are traditionally narrow, focusing on a particular policy area or jurisdiction without giving consideration to the significant procedural commonalities that can be identified across the public policy spectrum. Canadian Public Policy provides the first comprehensive, theoretically informed, empirical evaluation of the development of public policy in Canada. It ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Policy Styles and Policy-Making

    Exploring the Linkages

    Edited by Michael Howlett, Jale Tosun ...
    Series series Routledge Textbooks in Policy Studies
    Richardson et al.’s respected and seminal Policy Styles in Western Europe (1982) shed valuable light on how countries tend to establish long-term and distinctive ways to make policies that transcend short-term imperatives and issues. This follow-up volume updates those arguments and significantly expands the coverage, consisting of 16 carefully selected country-level case studies from around the ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Policy Work in Canada

    Professional Practices and Analytical Capacities

    Policy Work in Canada is an in-depth study into the levels of analytical capacity found within the federal and provincial governments as well as the non-governmental sector. By focusing on the individuals who craft public policy in Canada, this collection of eighteen chapters broadens and deepens our understanding of policy development in Canada.The contributors to this volume empirically examine ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Policy Tools

    Edited by Michael Howlett ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    This handbook provides a unique, systematic and comprehensive overview from leading experts in the field of the policy-making tools deployed at all the phases of the policy process. It covers the fundamentals of both new and established policy tools – from regulation and public enterprises to subsidies and information campaigns, as well as new tools, such as social impact investing, nudges, ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Comparative Policy Analysis

    This Handbook presents the first comprehensive study of policy analytical practices in comparative perspective.It explores emerging developments and innovations in the field and advances knowledge of the nature and quality of policy analysis across different countries and at different levels of government by all relevant actors, both inside and outside government, who contribute to the diagnosis ... Read more

    $68.99 USD