Public Policy

Peter Hupe is Visiting Professor at the Public Governance Institute, KU Leuven, Belgium. He is also Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the School of Social Policy, University of Birmingham, UK. While teaching Public Administration at Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands, he had academic affiliations in Leiden, Leuven, London, Oxford and Potsdam. The major part of his research regards the theoretical-empirical study of policy processes, particularly implementation and street-level bureaucracy. He discovered the relevance of the latter during an earlier career as a policymaker in the Dutch national civil service. Publishing regularly in journals like Public Administration, Public Policy and Administration and Public Management Review, in 2019 he composed the Research Handbook of Street-Level Bureaucracy: The Ground Floor of Government in Context. With Tony Evans he edited Discretion and the Quest for Controlled Freedom (2020). Michael Hill is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at the University of Newcastle, UK. Before entering academic life at the University of Reading he was a street-level bureaucrat in a local social assistance office. He later worked on research at the Universities of Oxford and Bristol on the implementation of social policy. Since retiring from Newcastle he has held part-time visiting professorships in London University at Goldsmiths College and Queen Mary College and also in the London School of Economics and the University of Brighton. His long-standing text The Public Policy Process reached its eighth edition in 2021 in a joint version with Frederic Varone of the University of Geneva. In 2020 he published Exploring the World of Social Policy with Zoe Irving of the University of York.

VOLUME ONE: PUBLIC POLICY IN PERSPECTIVE Introduction - Peter Hupe and Michael Hill Analysis in Action: The Two Faces of Public Policy PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS In What Way Princes May Keep Faith - Niccolo Machiavelli Rationality in Administrative Behavior - Herbert Simon The Emerging Conception of the Policy Sciences - Harold Lasswell Four Systems of Policy, Politics and Choice - Theodore Lowi Institutional Perspectives on Political Institutions - James March and Johan Olsen A Behavioural Approach to the Rational Choice Theory of Collective Action - Elinor Ostrom PART TWO: MODELS OF THE POLICY PROCESS The Study of Administration - Woodrow Wilson The New Governance - Rod Rhodes Governing without Government The Dynamics of Multi-Organizational Partnerships - Vivien Lowndes and Chris Skelcher An Analysis of Changing Modes of Governance Analyzing Policy Processes as Multiple Governance - Michael Hill and Peter Hupe Accountability in Social Policy The Need for Better Theories - Paul Sabatier PART THREE: PUBLIC POLICY AND BEYOND From Public Administration to Public Management - Andrew Gray and Bill Jenkins Reassessing a Revolution Introduction to Policy Paradox - Deborah Stone The Art of Political Decision-Making Policy without Polity? Policy Analysis and the Institutional Void - Maarten Hajer E-Government and NPM - Vincent Homburg A Perfect Marriage? Is Hierarchical Governance in Decline? Evidence from Empirical Research - Carolyn Hill and Laurence Lynn VOLUME TWO: TOWARDS PUBLIC POLICY PART FOUR: POLICY AGENDA-BUILDING Decisions and Non-Decisions - Peter Bachrach and Morton Baratz An Analytical Framework Agenda-Building as a Comparative Political Process - Roger Cobb, Jennie-Keith Ross and Marc Howard Ross The Politics of Blame Avoidance - R. Kent Weaver How Does an Idea's Time Come - John Kingdon Focusing Events, Mobilization and Agenda-Setting - Thomas Birkland The Advocacy Coalition Framework - Paul Sabatier and Christopher Weible Innovations and Clarification PART FIVE: POLICY FORMULATION Policy Instruments, Policy Styles and Policy Implementation - Michael Howlett National Approaches to Theories of Instrument Choice The Selection of Policy Instruments - Hans Bressers and Laurence O'Toole Jr. A Network-Based Perspective Intellectual Obsolescence and Intellectual Makeovers - Christopher Hood Reflections on the Tools of Government after Two Decades Introduction - Pierre Lascoumes and Patrick Le Gales Understanding Public Policy through Its Instruments - from the Nature of Instruments to the Sociology of Public Policy Implementation The Lessons for Policy Work - Hal Colebatch, Robert Hoppe and Mirko Noordegraaf PART SIX: POLICY DECISION-MAKING The Science of Muddling through - Charles Lindblom Conclusion to The Essence of Decision - Graham Allison Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis Between Planning and Politics - Aaron Wildavsky Intellect versus Interaction as Analysis Rethinking Allison's Models - Jonathan Bendor and Thomas Hammond Managing Value Conflict in Public Policy - David Thacher and Martin Rein VOLUME THREE: PUBLIC POLICY IN ACTION PART SEVEN: POLICY IMPLEMENTATION Appearances and Formulating Policy - Jeffrey Pressman and Aaron Wildavsky The Policy Implementation Process - Donald van Meter and Carl van Horn A Conceptual Framework Implementation Structures - Benny Hjern and David Porter A New Unit of Administrative Analysis The Pressman-Wildavsky Paradox - Elinor Bowen Four Addenda or Why Models Based on Probability Theory Can Predict Implementation Success and Suggest Useful Tactical Advice for Implementers Top-down and Bottom-up Approaches to Implementation Research - Paul Sabatier A Critical Analysis and Suggested Synthesis Synthesizing the Implementation Literature - Richard Matland The Ambiguity-Conflict Model of Policy Implementation Research on Policy Implementation - Laurence O'Toole Jr. Assessment and Prospects Theory of 'Soft' Policy Implementation in Multilevel Systems with an Application to Social Partnership in The Netherlands - Rene Torenvlied and Agnes Akkerman PART EIGHT: POLICY-MAKING AT THE STREET LEVEL Street-Level Bureaucracy and the Analysis of Urban Reform - Michael Lipsky Street-Level Bureaucrats and Institutional Innovation - Richard Weatherley and Michael Lipsky Implementing Special Education Reform From Street-Level to System-Level Bureaucracies - Mark Bovens and Stavros Zouridis How Information and Communication Technology Is Transforming Administrative Discretion and Constitutional Control Understanding Implementation - Heather Hill Street-Level Bureaucrat's Resources for Reform Politicians, Managers and Street-Level Bureaucrats - Peter May and Soren Winter Influences on Policy Implementation PART NINE: POLICY IN CONTEXT Assessing Policy Outcomes - Mark Bovens and Paul Hart Social and Political Biases Summing up - Joop Koppenjan and Erik-Hans Klijn Dealing with Uncertainties in Networks The Politics of Path Dependency - B. Guy Peters, Jon Pierre and Desmond King Political Conflict in Historical Institutionalism A Decade of Treating Networks Seriously - Scott Robinson Vertical Politics in Horizontal Policy Networks - Joop Koppenjan, Mirjam Kars and Haiko van der Voort Framework Setting as Coupling Arrangement VOLUME FOUR: PUBLIC POLICY IN PROGRESS PART TEN: EVIDENCE AND POLICY-MAKING Research for Policy's Sake - Carol Weiss The Enlightenment Function of Social Science Research Epilogue - Mark Bovens and Paul 't Hart Making Sense of Policy Fiascoes Policy Analysis, Science and Politics - Robert Hoppe From 'Speaking Truth to Power' to 'Making Sense Together' Disorderly Progress on the Frontiers of Policy Evaluation - Dale Krane Debating the Head Start Program - Frank Fischer The Westinghouse Reading Scores in Normative Perspective Towards a Framework for Establishing Policy Success - David Marsh and Allan McConnell PART ELEVEN: POLICY TRANSFER Learning from Abroad - David Dolowicz and David Marsh The Role of Policy Transfer in Contemporary Policy-Making The Limitations of 'Policy Transfer' and 'Lesson Drawing' for Public Policy Research - Oliver James and Martin Lodge Policy Transfer in the European Union - Simon Bulmer and Stephen Padgett An Institutionalist Perspective Causes and Conditions of Cross-National Policy Convergence - Katharina Holzinger and Christoph Knill Innovation and Diffusion Models in Policy Research - Frances Stokes Berry and William Berry PART TWELVE: POLICY CHANGE (INCLUDING POLICY TERMINATION) Policy Paradigms, Social Learning and the State - Peter Hall The Case of Economic Policy-Making in Britain Ideas, Institutions and Political Order - Robert Lieberman Explaining Political Change Riding the Wave of Opportunity - Iris Geva-May Termination in Public Policy Comparative Studies of Policy Agendas - Frank Baumgartner, Christoffer Green-Pedersen and Bryan Jones Process Sequencing Policy Dynamics - Michael Howlett Beyond Homeostasis and Path Dependency