Public Policy Studies

Author: Tao Xuerong
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: Public Policy Studies originated from Policy Science, a highly comprehensive and applied new discipline that is rapidly developing. It emerged in several major industrialized countries (such as the United States) after World War II. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, some Western politicians applied the analytical methods of microeconomics on efficiency issues to the political field of social sciences, thereby establishing the basic framework of policy analysis. By 1950, the book "Policy Science: Recent Developments in Scope and Method" edited by Lerner and Lasswell was published. After more than half a century of research and development, Policy Science has become one of the disciplines in the field of social sciences after World War II that has developed the fastest, has the broadest application areas, and has the most obvious social utility. Its emergence was hailed as a major breakthrough in the development of contemporary social sciences and management sciences, especially in Public Administration and Political Science. This book provides a basic theoretical learning framework for undergraduate and graduate students majoring in Public Administration for the "Public Policy" (or "Policy Science") course. The book consists of 11 chapters, including Introduction, Basic Concepts of Public Policy, Values of Public Policy, Environment of Public Policy, Policy System, Policy Making, Policy Instruments, Policy Implementation, Policy Evaluation, Policy Termination, and Policy Analysis.