Making Public Policy

Mark Considine is Professor and Director at the Centre for Public Policy, University of Melbourne.

• Preface. Chapter one - Policy Interventions.Chapter two - Analysing Actors: Bill, Bruno and Anna.Chapter three - Analysing the Policy Context.Chapter four - Analysing Policy Values.Chapter five - Analysing Policy Institutions: Courts, Bureaucracies and Budgets.Chapter six - Policy Interventions and Networks.Chapter seven - Policy Interventions and Organisations.Chapter eight - Policy Interventions and Governance.Chapter nine - Policy Interventions and Citizen Engagement.Chapter ten - Policy Interventions and Accountability.Chapter eleven - Conclusions: Understanding Interactions, Devising Interventions.Bibliography.Index

‘Mark Considine has written an important contribution to the literature on public policy that will be useful to academics and practitioners alike. He demonstrates the importance of the policy process and provides insights into policy-making that extend our understanding of both politics and policy.’Professor B. Guy Peters, Department of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh ‘Original and readable, Making Public Policy is a carefully constructed and cohesive argument for intelligent and theoretically informed policy analysis.’ Dr Mike Smith, Institute of Local Government Studies, University of Birmingham 'Analytically...this is a rich, challenging and intellectually stimulating contribution to the burgeoning literature on making public policy.'Public Administration