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Print Price: $84.95

Format:
Paperback
350 pp.
Numerous line drawings, 153 mm x 229 mm

ISBN-13:
9780195555264

Publication date:
November 2005

Imprint: OUP Australia and New Zealand

Public Policy: The Competitive Framework

Dr Ewen Michael

In readily accessible style, Public Policy: The Competitive Framework provides a complete explanation of how public policy is formed and why. The book presents a new interpretation of public policy analysis that is synthesised with market segmentation theory, allowing the model to be applied to differing market and social situations that require a public decision to be made.

Readership : Second or third yr politics, government, public policy, social policy, management and tourism students studying public policy in undergraduate degree courses and subjects.

Part 1 Building a Background for Public Policy Analysis
Ch 2 What is the state?
Ch3 The Market System at Work
Ch 4 Issues in Public Economies
Ch 5 Intervention and Market Failure
Ch 6 Decision making: Who influences Whom
Ch 7 Interest Groups and Theory of Market Segmentation
Part 2 Contemporary Issues in Policy Analysis
Ch 8 Competition
Ch 9 Privatisation and the Economics of Interest groups
Ch 10 Community Service Obligations: A strategy to avoid collective failure
Ch 11 Accountability and the Democratic Process

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Ewen Michael is at La Trobe University.

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Special Features

Structured logically and sequentially to introduce students to the key elements of policy analysis. Public policy theory presented in an accessible manner. Emphasises the 'competitive framework' in order to examine the role of government in attending to the welfare of all members of a society.