TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,Kevin B.
AU  - Larimer,Christopher W.
TI  - The public policy theory primer
SN  - 9780813347493 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - H 97 SMI
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Boulder, CO
PB  - Westview Press
KW  - Policy sciences
KW  - Political planning
N1  - Includes index; Public policy as a concept and a field (or fields) of study -- Does politics cause policy? Does policy cause politics? -- Who makes decisions? How do they make decisions? Actors and institutions -- Where does policy come from? The policy process -- What should we do? The field of policy analysis -- What have we done? Impact analysis and program evaluation -- How does it work? Policy implementation -- Whose values? Policy design -- New directions in policy research -- Do the policy sciences exist?
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