The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science is a ten-volume set of
reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical
overviews of the state of political science. Each volume focuses on
a particular part of the discipline, with volumes on Public Policy,
Political Theory, Political Economy, Contextual Political Analysis,
Comparative Politics, International Relations, Law and Politics,
Political Behavior, Political Institutions, and Political
Methodology. The project as a whole is under the General Editorship
of Robert E. Goodin, with each volume being edited by a
distinguished international group of specialists in their
respective fields. The books set out not just to report on the
discipline, but to shape it. The series will be an indispensable
point of reference for anyone working in political science and
adjacent disciplines. Public 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 instil more
reflective attitudes among policy practitioners themselves toward
their own practices. The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy 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.
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