{"product_id":"the-oxford-handbook-of-public-policy-paperback","title":"The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael Moran\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMartin Rein\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eRobert E. Goodin\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublic policy is the business end of political science. It is where theory meets practice in the pursuit of the public good. Political scientists approach public policy in myriad ways. Some approach the policy process descriptively, asking how the need for public intervention comes to be perceived, a policy response formulated, enacted, implemented, and, all too often, subverted, perverted, altered, or abandoned. Others approach public policy more prescriptively, offering politically-informed suggestions for how normatively valued goals can and should be pursued, either through particular policies or through alternative processes for making policy. Some offer their advice from the Olympian heights of detached academic observers, others as 'engaged scholars' cum advocates, while still others seek to instill more reflective attitudes among policy practitioners themselves toward their own practices. \u003cem\u003eThe Oxford Handbook of Public Policy\u003c\/em\u003e mines all these traditions, using an innovative structure that responds to the very latest scholarship. Its chapters touch upon institutional and historical sources and analytical methods, how policy is made, how it is evaluated and how it is constrained. In these ways, the Handbook shows how the combined wisdom of political science as a whole can be brought to bear on political attempts to improve the human condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMichael Moran\u003c\/strong\u003e is W.J.M. Mackenzie Professor of Government at the University of Manchester. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMartin Rein\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRobert E. Goodin\u003c\/strong\u003e is Distinguished Professor of Social and Political Theory and Philosophy at the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 996\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.7 x 9.6 x 6.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 18, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45862895485125,"sku":"9780199548453","price":114.57,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/S-T3lwJ5_T9780199548453.webp?v=1771575479","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/the-oxford-handbook-of-public-policy-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}