Includes index Araral, E. Jr., Fritzen, S., Howlett, M., Ramesh, M., & Wu, X. (Eds.). (2010). Routledge handbook of public policy. New York, NY : Routledge.

Part I: Introduction to the study of the public policy process: history and method -- Public policy debate and the rise of policy analysis -- The policy-making process -- Comparative approaches to the study of public policy-making -- International dimensions and dynamics of policy-making -- Part II: Conceptualizing public policy-making -- State theory and the rise of the regulatory state -- The public choice perspective -- Institutional analysis and political economy -- Postpositivism and the policy process -- Part III: Modelling the policy process: frameworks for analysis -- The institutional analysis and development framework -- The advocacy coalition framework: coalitions, learning and policy change -- The punctuated equilibrium theory of agenda-setting and policy change -- Policy network models -- Part IV: Understanding the agenda-setting process -- Policy agenda-setting studies: attention, politics and the public -- Focusing events and policy windows -- Agenda-setting and political discourse: major analytical frameworks and their application -- Mass media and policy-making -- Part V: Understanding the formulation process -- Policy design and transfer -- Epistemic communities -- Policy appraisal -- Policy analytical styles -- Part VI: Understanding the decision-making process -- Bounded rationality and public policy decision-making -- Incrementalism -- Models of research into decision-making processes: on phases, streams, rounds and tracks of decision-making -- The garbage can model and the study of the policy-making process -- Part VII: Understanding the implementation process -- Bureaucracy and the policy process -- Disagreement and alternative dispute resolution in the policy process -- Governance, networks and intergovernmental systems -- Development management and policy implementation: relevance beyond the global South -- Part VIII: Understanding the evaluation process -- Six models of evaluation -- Policy feedback and learning -- Randomized control trials: what are they, why are they promoted as the gold standard for casual identification and what can they (not) tell us? -- Policy evaluation and public participation -- Part IX: Policy dynamics: patterns of stability and change -- Policy dynamics and change: the never-ending puzzle -- Policy trajectories and legacies: path dependency revisited -- Process sequencing -- Learning from success and failure?

This handbook provides a comprehensive global survey of the policy process. The handbook covers all aspects of the policy process including theory, network theory, advocacy coalition and development models, and much more.