Public Policy Analysis - Concepts. Process. Methods

Author: Zhang Jinma, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2004-03-10
Features: This book is a rewritten version of the professional textbook Introduction to Policy Science designed for graduate students. 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 around 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 at the "meta-analysis" level. In the process section, it comprehensively elaborates on the policy process, tracing its theoretical origins to its content. In the methods section, it presents a set of public policy analytical methodologies and more operational procedural analytical tools, with a focus on emphasizing five key techniques in policy research. For the convenience of readers' learning and research, the book provides explanations of public policy terms by foreign scholars in the appendix.