文档介绍：Public Policy and Policy Analysis
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Introduction
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Policy analysis
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Empirical methods
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Public policy, administration and management
Policy process models
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Responses to criticism
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Political public policy
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Conclusion
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Limitations of the policy analysis approach
Introduction
In the period roughly from the 1950s to the 1970s, ‘public policy’really began to take off, and public administration began to move into a state of decline which was to accelerate in the 1980s’(Parsons, 1995, p. 7).
By the early 1970s, some involved in the study of public policy consciously and deliberately distanced themselves from the discipline of public adminis-tration. Most public policy practitioners at the time saw it as concerned with the application of formal, mathematical methods to solving public sector problems.
The argument here is that there are now two public policy approaches, each with its own concerns and emphases:

The first is termed ‘policy analysis’;

The policy analysis people are those who have continued to develop the field in the way it started, that is, by the use of sometimes highly abstract statistics and mathematical models, with the focus on decision-making and policy formation.
Introduction
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The second is ‘political public policy’.

Political public policy theorists are more inter-ested in the results or es of public policy, the political interactions determining a particular event, and in policy areas – health, education, welfare,the environment, for example – rather than in the use of statistical methods.
Introduction
Public policy could now be considered either as a separate paradigm, competing with public administration and public management or as a set of analytical methods applicable to both. It is argued here that the public policy movement is closely related to the traditional model of public administration, with its implicit acceptance of the bureaucratic model and its ‘one best way’ thinking. Th