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 Frédéric Varone of the University of Geneva. In 2020 he published Exploring the World of Social Policy with Zoë Irving of the University of York.

• VOLUME ONE: PUBLIC POLICY IN PERSPECTIVE Introduction - Peter Hupe and Michael HillAnalysis in Action: The Two Faces of Public PolicyPART ONE: FOUNDATIONS In What Way Princes May Keep Faith - Niccolo MachiavelliRationality in Administrative Behavior - Herbert SimonThe Emerging Conception of the Policy Sciences - Harold LasswellFour Systems of Policy, Politics and Choice - Theodore LowiInstitutional Perspectives on Political Institutions - James March and Johan OlsenA Behavioural Approach to the Rational Choice Theory of Collective Action - Elinor OstromPART TWO: MODELS OF THE POLICY PROCESS The Study of Administration - Woodrow WilsonThe New Governance - Rod RhodesGoverning without GovernmentThe Dynamics of Multi-Organizational Partnerships - Vivien Lowndes and Chris SkelcherAn Analysis of Changing Modes of GovernanceAnalyzing Policy Processes as Multiple Governance - Michael Hill and Peter HupeAccountability in Social PolicyThe Need for Better Theories - Paul SabatierPART THREE: PUBLIC POLICY AND BEYOND From Public Administration to Public Management - Andrew Gray and Bill JenkinsReassessing a RevolutionIntroduction to Policy Paradox - Deborah StoneThe Art of Political Decision-MakingPolicy without Polity? Policy Analysis and the Institutional Void - Maarten HajerE-Government and NPM - Vincent HomburgA Perfect Marriage?Is Hierarchical Governance in Decline? Evidence from Empirical Research - Carolyn Hill and Laurence LynnVOLUME TWO: TOWARDS PUBLIC POLICY PART FOUR: POLICY AGENDA-BUILDINGDecisions and Non-Decisions - Peter Bachrach and Morton BaratzAn Analytical FrameworkAgenda-Building as a Comparative Political Process - Roger Cobb, Jennie-Keith Ross and Marc Howard RossThe Politics of Blame Avoidance - R. Kent WeaverHow Does an Idea′s Time Come - John KingdonFocusing Events, Mobilization and Agenda-Setting - Thomas Birkland The Advocacy Coalition Framework - Paul Sabatier and Christopher WeibleInnovations and ClarificationPART FIVE: POLICY FORMULATIONPolicy Instruments, Policy Styles and Policy Implementation - Michael HowlettNational Approaches to Theories of Instrument ChoiceThe Selection of Policy Instruments - Hans Bressers and Laurence O′Toole Jr. A Network-Based PerspectiveIntellectual Obsolescence and Intellectual Makeovers - Christopher Hood Reflections on the Tools of Government after Two DecadesIntroduction - Pierre Lascoumes and Patrick Le GalesUnderstanding Public Policy through Its Instruments - from the Nature of Instruments to the Sociology of Public Policy ImplementationThe Lessons for Policy Work - Hal Colebatch, Robert Hoppe and Mirko NoordegraafPART SIX: POLICY DECISION-MAKINGThe Science of Muddling through - Charles LindblomConclusion to The Essence of Decision - Graham AllisonExplaining the Cuban Missile CrisisBetween Planning and Politics - Aaron WildavskyIntellect versus Interaction as Analysis Rethinking Allison′s Models - Jonathan Bendor and Thomas HammondManaging Value Conflict in Public Policy - David Thacher and Martin ReinVOLUME THREE: PUBLIC POLICY IN ACTION PART SEVEN: POLICY IMPLEMENTATIONAppearances and Formulating Policy - Jeffrey Pressman and Aaron WildavskyThe Policy Implementation Process - Donald van Meter and Carl van HornA Conceptual FrameworkImplementation Structures - Benny Hjern and David PorterA New Unit of Administrative AnalysisThe Pressman-Wildavsky Paradox - Elinor BowenFour Addenda or Why Models Based on Probability Theory Can Predict Implementation Success and Suggest Useful Tactical Advice for ImplementersTop-down and Bottom-up Approaches to Implementation Research - Paul SabatierA Critical Analysis and Suggested SynthesisSynthesizing the Implementation Literature - Richard MatlandThe Ambiguity-Conflict Model of Policy ImplementationResearch on Policy Implementation - Laurence O′Toole Jr.Assessment and ProspectsTheory of ′Soft′ Policy Implementation in Multilevel Systems with an Application to Social Partnership in The Netherlands - René Torenvlied and Agnes AkkermanPART EIGHT: POLICY-MAKING AT THE STREET LEVEL Street-Level Bureaucracy and the Analysis of Urban Reform - Michael LipskyStreet-Level Bureaucrats and Institutional Innovation - Richard Weatherley and Michael LipskyImplementing Special Education ReformFrom Street-Level to System-Level Bureaucracies - Mark Bovens and Stavros ZouridisHow Information and Communication Technology Is Transforming Administrative Discretion and Constitutional ControlUnderstanding Implementation - Heather HillStreet-Level Bureaucrat′s Resources for ReformPoliticians, Managers and Street-Level Bureaucrats - Peter May and Søren WinterInfluences on Policy ImplementationPART NINE: POLICY IN CONTEXT Assessing Policy Outcomes - Mark Bovens and Paul Hart Social and Political BiasesSumming up - Joop Koppenjan and Erik-Hans KlijnDealing with Uncertainties in NetworksThe Politics of Path Dependency - B. Guy Peters, Jon Pierre and Desmond KingPolitical Conflict in Historical InstitutionalismA Decade of Treating Networks Seriously - Scott RobinsonVertical Politics in Horizontal Policy Networks - Joop Koppenjan, Mirjam Kars and Haiko van der VoortFramework Setting as Coupling ArrangementVOLUME FOUR: PUBLIC POLICY IN PROGRESSPART TEN: EVIDENCE AND POLICY-MAKINGResearch for Policy′s Sake - Carol WeissThe Enlightenment Function of Social Science ResearchEpilogue - Mark Bovens and Paul ′t HartMaking Sense of Policy FiascoesPolicy Analysis, Science and Politics - Robert HoppeFrom ′Speaking Truth to Power′ to ′Making Sense Together′Disorderly Progress on the Frontiers of Policy Evaluation - Dale KraneDebating the Head Start Program - Frank FischerThe Westinghouse Reading Scores in Normative PerspectiveTowards a Framework for Establishing Policy Success - David Marsh and Allan McConnellPART ELEVEN: POLICY TRANSFER Learning from Abroad - David Dolowicz and David MarshThe Role of Policy Transfer in Contemporary Policy-MakingThe Limitations of ′Policy Transfer′ and ′Lesson Drawing′ for Public Policy Research - Oliver James and Martin LodgePolicy Transfer in the European Union - Simon Bulmer and Stephen PadgettAn Institutionalist PerspectiveCauses and Conditions of Cross-National Policy Convergence - Katharina Holzinger and Christoph KnillInnovation 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 HallThe Case of Economic Policy-Making in BritainIdeas, Institutions and Political Order - Robert LiebermanExplaining Political ChangeRiding the Wave of Opportunity - Iris Geva-MayTermination in Public PolicyComparative Studies of Policy Agendas - Frank Baumgartner, Christoffer Green-Pedersen and Bryan JonesProcess Sequencing Policy Dynamics - Michael HowlettBeyond Homeostasis and Path Dependency