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PSCI 6407

Public Policy: Theory and Analysis

0.5 credit · Graduate

Introduction to major theoretical approaches in the study and analysis of public policy and to current topics and debates in the field.

2021

Readings

  • including: Béland, D. and R.H. Cox (2011). Ideas and Politics in Social Science Research. Toronto: Oxford University Press.
  • Kingdon, J. (1984) Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies. Boston: Little Brown Smith, K.B., and C.W. Larimer (2017). The Public Policy Theory Primer. Boulder, CO: Westview. [open access]
  • Smith, K.B., and C.W. Larimer (2017). The Public Policy Theory Primer. Boulder, CO: Westview. https://doi- org.proxy.library.carleton.ca/10.4324/9780429494352 [open access]
  • Wilder, M. (2016). Whither the funnel of causality. Canadian Journal of Political Science 49(4): 721-741.
  • Daigneault, P.M and D. Béland (2015). Taking explanation seriously in political science. Political Studies Review 13(3):384-392.
  • Further Reading: Capano, G. (2009) Understanding policy change as an epistemological and theoretical problem. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, 11(1): 7-31
  • Hoppe, R. and Colebatch, H. (2016). The role of theories in policy studies and policy work: selective affinities between representation and performation? European Policy Analysis, 2: 121–149.
  • Stone, D. (2012). Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making, 3rd Ed. New York: W. W. Norton and Co.
  • Torgerson, D. (1986). Between knowledge and politics: Three faces of policy analysis. Policy Sciences 19(1): 33- 59.
  • Clarke, J., D. Bainton, N. Lendvai and P. Stubbs. (2015). Making Policy Move: Towards a Politics of Translation and Assemblage. Bristol: Policy Press. Chapter 2: Translation, assemblage and beyond – towards a conceptual
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