Contemporary Approaches to Public Policy

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Contemporary Approaches to Public Policy is written by B. Guy Peters and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1137504943 (ISBN 10) and 9781137504944 (ISBN 13).

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.