Public Policy and Private Interest Ideas, Self-Interest and Ethics in Public Policy Routledge Textbooks in Policy Studies Series

Public Policy and Private Interest explains the complexities of the policy making process in a refreshingly clear way for students who are new to this subject. The key topics it explains are:

• How policy originates, is refined, legitimised, implemented, evaluated and terminated in the forms of theoretical models of the policy process;
• Which actors and institutions are most influential in determining the nature of policy;
• The values that shape the policy agenda such as ideology, institutional self-interest and resource capabilities;
• The outcome of policies, and why they succeed or fail;
• The main policy theories including the very latest insights from network theory and post-modernism;
• How national policy is influenced by globalization.

The text is fully illustrated throughout with a broad range of national and international case studies on subjects such as the banking crisis, the creation of unitary authorities and global environmental policy and regulation.

Combining both a clear summary of debates and theories in public policy and a new and original approach to the subject, this book is essential reading for students of public policy and policy analysis.

1. Introduction

2. The Legacy of the 'Scientific' Origins of Policy Studies

3. Subjective Approaches

4. Policy, Ideology and Ideas

5. Self-Interest

6. Ethics and Public Policy

7. Policy and Power

8. Public Policy in Autocracies

9. Liberal Democracy

10. Networks and the Advocacy Coalition Framework

11. Getting Policy on the Agenda

12. Evaluation and Validation

13. Refining Policy Towards Legitimation

14. Implementation

15. Policy Evolution

16. Success and Failure

17. Deliberative Policy Making

18. Conclusion

J.A Chandler is Emeritus Professor of Local Governance in the Faculty of Organisation and Management at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He has published extensively in the field of public policy and administration with a particular emphasis on local governance.