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Public Policy Process

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Steps in the policy process
Agenda setting and the democratization of policy analysis
Policy analysis as an extension of rational decision making
Role of policy analysts in the policy process
Steps in process of policy analysis
  

Readings

Patton & Sawicki: 1 - 73
Bardach, 1 - 46, 97 - 102
RES #2: Dipak K. Gupta, 2001.  Analyzing Public Policy: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press. pages 46 - 69.
 

Lecture Notes

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Web Resources

There are a number of think tanks and nongovernmental organizations that hire policy analysts and are both clients for and generators of analysis in the policy process.  Notable examples include:
Urban Institute
Heritage Foundation
Brookings Institution
American Enterprise Institute
CATO Institute
Resources for the Future
John Locke Foundation
National League of Cities
National Association of Counties (NaCo)
National Governor's Association
 

Books of Possible Interest

Sabatier, Paul A. 1999. (ed.) Theories of the Policy Process. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Brewer, Garry D. and Peter deLeon. 1983. The Foundations of Policy Analysis. Homewood, IL: The Dorsey Press.
Cobb, Roger W. and Charles D. Elder. 1983. Participation in American Politics: The Dynamics of Agenda-Building. Second Edition. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press.
Kingdon, J. W.. 1984. Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies. Boston, MA: Little Brown.
Jones, Charles O.. 1977. An Introduction to the Study of Public Policy. Second Edition.
Lasswell, Harold D.. 1956. The Decision Process. College Park, MD: University of Maryland Press
Dye, T. R.. 1976. Policy Analysis: What Governments Do, Why They Do It, and What Difference it Makes. University of Alabama Press.
 

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