Books in the Routledge Textbooks in Policy Studies series

Provides an overview of the main approaches in the study of public policy. This book explains the common and widely used frameworks in the study of policy analysis: institutionalism; network theory; socioeconomic theories; rational choice; and, ideas-based. It is suitable for students of public policy and policy analysis.

Provides an overview of the entire policy cycle taking the reader through the various stages of agenda setting, policy formulation, decision making, policy implementation and policy evaluation. This title draws on a wide variety of national and international case studies.

This follow-up volume updates the arguments and significantly expands the coverage of Richardson et al.¿s respected and seminal Policy Styles in Western Europe (1982) which shed valuable light on how countries tend to establish long-term and distinctive ways to make policies that transcend short-term imperatives and issues.