The Public Policy Process is essential reading for anyone trying to understand the process by which public policy is made. Explaining clearly the importance of the relationship between theoretical and practical aspects of policymaking, the book gives a thorough overview of the people and organisations involved in the process. Fully revised and updated for an eighth edition, The Public Policy Process provides: Clear exploration, using many illustrations, of how policy is made and implemented; Examines challenges to effective policy making in critical areas – such as inequality and climate change – including the influence of powerful interests and the Covid-19 pandemic; New material on unequal democracies, interest groups influence, behavioural policy analysis, global policies and evidence-based decision making; Additional European and comparative international examples. This text is essential reading for students of public policy, public administration and management, as well as more broadly highly relevant to related courses in health and nursing, social welfare, environment, development and local government.

What will gain the system’s attention? “Explores the dynamics of a broad range of policy issues in different countries . . . an important scholarly contribution.” —Political Studies Review Before making significant policy decisions, political actors and parties must first craft an agenda designed to place certain issues at the center of political attention. The agenda-setting approach in political science holds that the amount of attention devoted by the various actors within a political system to issues like immigration, health care, and the economy can inform our understanding of its basic patterns and processes. While there has been considerable attention to how political systems process issues in the United States, Christoffer Green-Pedersen and Stefaan Walgrave demonstrate the broader applicability of this approach by extending it to other countries and their political systems. This book brings together essays on eleven countries and two broad themes. Contributors to the first section analyze the extent to which party and electoral changes and shifts in the partisan composition of government have led—or not led—to policy changes in the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Denmark, Switzerland, and France. The second section turns the focus on changing institutional structures in Germany, Italy, Belgium, Spain, and Canada, including the German reunification and the collapse of the Italian party system. Together, the essays make clear the efficacy of the agenda-setting approach for understanding not only how policies evolve, but also how political systems function.

This book is an English version of a successful text* on public policy analysis originally written for policy practitioners in Switzerland and France. It presents a model for the analysis of public policy and includes examples of its application in everyday political-administrative situations. This English version introduces supplementary illustrations and examples from the United Kingdom. Structured and written accessibly for readers who may not have an academic background in the social sciences, Public Policy Analysis applies key ideas from sociology, political science, administrative science and law to develop an analytical framework that can be used to carry out empirical studies on different public policies. British scholars, practitioners and students are introduced all too rarely to ideas from the Francophone world, and this book will contribute to remedying that. It will be particularly relevant for students and practitioners of public administration.

This book compares the renewable electricity policies adopted before and after the liberalisation of the electricity market in Belgium, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. It is aimed at public actors and private operators.

Le projet de la modernisation de l’État demande une réflexion en profondeur sur la pertinence, l’efficacité et l’efficience des politiques publiques. Cet ouvrage présente les clés de l’analyse de ces dernières et propose un modèle illustré par des exemples français, suisses et canadiens. Ce modèle permet non seulement l’analyse, mais aussi l’accompagnement de réformes administratives ou le pilotage de nouvelles politiques.

Pourquoi et comment évaluer scientifiquement une politique publique? À qui s'adressent les résultats d'une évaluation et comment les valoriser politiquement? Faut-il institutionnaliser l'évaluation dans le système politico-administratif belge? De quelles expériences étrangères peut-on s'inspirer? Quels sont les enseignements à tirer des premières évaluations réalisées en Belgique?

«Auch für interessierte Kreise gerade in den NGOs zu empfehlen» natur und mensch Depuis les années 1950, le poids, l'ampleur et la complexité des politiques suisses de l'environnement se sont considérablement accrus. Ce vaste ensemble est aujourd'hui constitué d'une pluralité de politiques sectorielles.Le présent manuel analyse en particulier les politiques de gestion des eaux, de protection de l'air, de protection du climat, de lutte contre le bruit, de protection des sols, de gestion des déchets, de protection contre les substances dangereuses et les accidents majeurs, ainsi que de protection de la nature et du paysage. Ces politiques sont étudiées à l'aide de concepts issus de l'analyse des politiques publiques, exposés dans la première partie du manuel. La deuxième partie présente les principes d'action communs à ces huit politiques. L’analyse proprement dite des politiques sectorielles, objet de la troisième partie, est menée dans une triple perspective qui fait toute l’originalité de l’ouvrage: exposé de la succession historique des modèles de causalité, approche politologique des bases légales en vigueur, étude de ces politiques «en action» au travers d’études de cas. Une mise en perspective des politiques environnementales contemporaines conclut le manuel: sont ainsi discutés les problèmes de coordination que la mise en œuvre de ces politiques soulève, mais aussi les limites de celles-ci à l’aune des exigences du développement durable.