Policy formulation: Where knowledge meets power in the policy process

Publication Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

4-2017

Abstract

Policy formulation relies upon the interplay of knowledge-based analysis of issues with power-based considerations, such as the political assessment of the costs and benefits of proposed actions, and its effects on the partisan and electoral concerns of governments. Policy scholars have long been interested in how governments successfully create, deploy and utilise policy instruments, but the literature on policy formulation has, until now, remained fragmented. This comprehensive Handbook unites original scholarship on policy tools and design, with contributions examining policy actors and the roles they play in the formulation process.

Discipline

Policy Design, Analysis, and Evaluation | Political Science

Research Areas

Political Science

Publication

Handbook of Policy Formulation

Editor

M. Howlett and I. Mukherjee

ISBN

9781784719319

Identifier

10.4337/9781784719326

Publisher

Edward Elgar

City or Country

Cheltenham

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784719326

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