Section 1: Making policy 1. The three action levels of governance: Re-framing the policy process beyond the stages model - Peter L. Hupe and Michael J. Hill 2. The policy sciences: Past, present, and future - Peter Deleon and Christine R. Martell 3. Behavioral rationality and the policy processes: Toward a new model of organizational information processing - Bryan D. Jones, Graeme Boushey and Samuel Workman 4. Policy desing: Ubiquitous, necessary and difficult - David B. Bobrow 5. Networks and bargaining in policy analysis - Peter Bogason 6. Concepts and theories of horizontal policy management - B. Guy Peters 7. Budgeting - Irene S. Rubin 8. Implementation - Soren C. Winter Section 2: Substantive policy areas 9. Constitution and rights - John Uhr 10. Social policy: Pensions - Helen Fawcett 11. Social policy: Is there a crisis of the welfare state? - Harold L. Wilensky 12.Health policy - Michael MOran 13. Education policy - Susan Marton 14. Environmental policy - Christoph Knill 15. Cultural policy - Kevin V. Mulcahy 16. Tax policy - B. Guy Peters 17. Industrial policy in developed nations - Richard D. Bingham 18. Agiculture and food - Wyn Grant 19. Transportation and insfrastructure - Kenneth Button 20. Foreign policy - Wlater Carlsnaes 21. Criminal justice policy - Tim Newburn 22. Privatisation by divestment - Ian Thynne Section 3: Evaluating policy 23. Evaluation research - Evert Vedung 24. Efficiency and cost-benefit analysis - Aidan R. Vining and David L. Weimer 25. Ethics and public policy - Gary Bryner 26. Performance and performance management - Geert Bouckaert and John Halligan 27. Argumentative policy analysis - Hebert Gottweis 28. Disciplinary perspectives - Jon Pierre