Chapter 1: Policy science and political science The ambitions of policy science Definition of public policy Understanding public policy An applied problem-solving model of the policy process Towards an improved model of the policy cycle Chapter 2: Approaches to public policy Conceptual issues Dedutive theories Public choice Class theories Neo-institutionalism Inductive theories Welfare economics Pluralism and corporatism Statism Part 2: Actors, institutions, and instruments Chapter 3: Actors and institutions-assessing the policy capabilities of states Conceptual issues Actors in the policy process Elected officials Appointed officials Interest groups Reserch organizations Mass media Organization of the state Intergovernmental division of power-federalism Intragovernmental division of power-executive, legislature and judiciary The structure of the bureaucracy Organization of the society Business Labour Organization of the international system International trade regime International financial regime Assessing the effects of international institutions Chapter 4: Policy instruments Classification of policy instruments Voluntary instruments Family and community Voluntary organization The market Compulsory instruments Regulations Public enterprise Direct provision Mixed instruments Information and exhortation Subsidy Auction of property rights Taxes and user charges Part 3: The public policy process Chapter 5: Agenda setting-policy determinants and policy windows Conceptual issues Policy determinants Economic and technological determinism Interplay of politics and economics Ideas and ideology Re-conceptualizing the agenda-setting process Typical agenda-setting processes Chapter 6: policy formulation-policy communities and policy networks Conceptual issues Policy subsystems Sub-governments, iron triangles and issue networks Advocacy coalitions Policy networks Policy communities Taxonomy of policy subsystems Chapter 7: Public policy decision-making - beyond rationalism, incrementalism, and irrationalism Conceptual issues Models of decision-making The rational model The incremental model The garbage can model A subsystem model of public decision-making Chapter 8: Policy implementation-policy design and the choice pf policy instrument Conceptual issues The realities of policy implementation Perspectives on policy implementation Rationales for instrument choice Economic models Political models A synthetic model of policy instrument choice Chapter 9: Policy evaluation-policy analysis and policy learning Conceptual issues Types of policy evaluation Administrative evaluation-managerial performance and budgeting systems Judicial evaluation-judicial review and administrative discretion Political evaluation-consultations with policy subsystems and the public Policy evaluation-policy learning Part 4: conclusion Chapter 10: Policy styles, policy paradigms and the policy cycle Normal and paradigmatic patterns of policy change Normal policy change-policy style A punctuated equilibrium model of paradigmatic policy change Conclusion-policy subsystems, policy learning and policy change Chapter 11: Afterword - still studying public policy