Public Policy Analysis: Concepts. Process. Methods

Author: Jin Xianma, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2004-03-01
Features: This book is a rewritten version of the professional textbook Introduction to Policy Science designed for graduate students in China. It adheres to the inherent "spirit" of policy science: the combination of science and art (quasi-science), multidisciplinary foundations and interdisciplinary research, organized creativity (modern policy research organizations), the interaction of power and knowledge, and a rational analysis of civil servant capabilities and government work. Following the intrinsic logic of the discipline, it constructs a new framework for organizing policy science knowledge, structured by concepts, processes, and methods. In the conceptual section, it elaborates on the framework for organizing knowledge in public policy science, particularly providing a more fundamental exploration of public policy analysis itself from the level of "meta-analysis." In the process section, it comprehensively explains the policy process, tracing its theoretical origins to its content. In the methods section, it outlines a set of methodologies and more operationalized analytical tools for public policy analysis, with a focus on emphasizing five key techniques of policy research. For the convenience of readers in learning and research, the book provides explanations of public policy terminology by foreign scholars in the appendix.