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Public Policy in Australia: Theory and Practice provides clear, systematic and detailed coverage of the policy process using contemporary examples from Australia linked into theory and practice. This provides students with a good basis from which to grasp the conceptual base of the policy process and ensures that they are also provided with enough detail to develop their own analytical questions and hypotheses. The text is divided into three parts in order to highlight the linkages between theory, policy practices and social processes. The first part outlines the main theoretical traditions that inform public policy, bringing about an understanding of the conceptual bases that have played a significant role in the development of public policy and the theory that informs its practices. The second part focuses on the policy cycle, illustrating that policy making is a continuous process involving actors, decisions and resources which intersect with institutional procedures and ideological standpoints. This part demonstrates to students the clear linkages between theory and practice and assists students to identify the processes around decision making within the policy domain. Each asp

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Author

Yvonne Haigh

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195570410

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Social_sciences