Handbook on Policy, Process and Governing

Edited by H.K. Colebatch, Honorary Professor in Public Policy, University of New South Wales, Australia and Robert Hoppe, Emeritus Professor of Policy and Knowledge, Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences, Department of Science, Technology and Policy Studies, University of Twente, the Netherlands

'Edited by leading scholars with contributions from over thirty renowned experts, this is the leading Handbook on policy, processes and real world governing.'--Klaus Schubert, University of Muenster, Germany'This is a highly valuable and timely book, which re-discovers and re-thinks the relationship between policy processes, policy analysis (expertise and ''policy work'') and governing in the context of a search for optimal governance in an ever more globalized world. This Handbook does not simply bring a set of theories ''in good standing'' in academia, but rather relates them to one another to form an overall framework needed in dealing with the increasing internationalization of governing at a regional (the EU) and a global level.'--Danica Fink-Hafner, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

• Contents:1. Introduction: Policy, process and making sense of governingH.K. Colebatch and Robert Hoppe Part I: Tracing the signature of policy 2. ‘Whatever governments decide to do or not to do’Ed Page3. policy as ordering through documentsMichal Sedlacko 4. policy as (mere) problem-solvingNick Turnbull5. policy as practiceKoen Bartels6. policy as a body of expertiseHolger Strassheim Part II: Policy as authoritative choice7 ‘stage’’ theories of the policy processWilliam Dunn 8. design as a window on the policy processHal Colebatch 9. Thirty years of research on policy instrumentsMichael Howlett, Ishani Mukherjee and J.J. Woo 10. implementationPeter Hupe11. evidence and evaluationJan-Eric Furubo Part III: Policy as structured interaction12. Linkage and the policy processHal Colebatch13. The Advocacy Coalition FrameworkKeith Dowding14. Multiple streamsAlison Ritter and Kari Lancaster15. Policy work and its significance for public policyJan Kohoutek, Martin Nekola and Arnost Vesele.Part IV: Policy as sense-making16. Frames and framings in policy-makingPerri 617. Agenda formation and changePeter John 18. Narrative in the policy processRaul Lejano, Mrill Ingram and Helen Ingram19. Policy learning and diffusionDavid Dolowitz20. The news media and the policy processRod Tiffen 21. The role of Social Media in the policy processVictor Bekkers and Arthur Edwards22. ProblematisationDavid DeryPart V: The limits of policy23. Choice v. incrementalismRobert Hoppe 24. Stasis and changeJohn Grin25. Policy and Socio-economic characteristicsWilliam Blomquist 26. From Policy typologies to policy feedbackAynsley KellowWhat do we learn from this ?27. Policy and the theorising of governingRobert Hoppe and H.K. ColebatchIndex