Policy Process A Reader [Paperback]

In this new edition of his classic reader, Michael Hill seeks to make the selected extracts reflect a more European outlook on the processess of policy-making and implementation. With reference to the third edition of his popular textbook, The Policy Process in the Modern State, Hill has maintained the thematic approach of the first edition, looking in turn at approaches to policy making in Europe, power, bureaucracy and the State, the rationality/incrememtalism debate, the role of organisational theory in policy implementation, street-level bureaucracy and discretion. Already praised as one of the best readers available in thisfield, Michael Hill's new edition will be even more valued as a reference and teaching resource by students and lecturers alike.

1. POLICY AND POLICY ANALYSIS
2. Introduction. Perspectives on Policy Analysis - Ian Gordon, Janet Lewis, and Ken Young
3. Theory and Practice in Public Policy and Administration - Martin Minogue
4. Policy Analysis: Models and Approaches - Bill Jenkins
5. THE ROLE OF THE STATE
6. Introduction
7. Three Distinctive Views of Power Compared - Steven Lukes
8. The Evolution of Pluralist Theory - Gregor McLennan
9. The Evolution of Marxist Approaches to State Organization - Patrick Dunleavy and Brendan O'Leary
10. Bringing the State Back In - Theda Skocpol
11. BUREAUCRACY AND THE STATE
12. Introduction
13. Rational-Legal Authority and Bureaucracy - Max Weber
14. The Economic Theory of Bureaucracy - Gordon Tullock
15. Efficiency Rules, OK? Weber and the Economic Enterprise Alternatives - Stewart Clegg
16. Explaining the Privatization BlCµ