- The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science
- [UNTITLED]
- About the Contributors
- The Public and its Policies
- The Historical Roots of the Field
- Emergence of Schools of Public Policy: Reflections by a Founding Dean
- Training for Policy Makers
- Policy Analysis as Puzzle Solving
- Policy Analysis as Critical Listening
- Policy Analysis as Policy Advice
- Policy Analysis for Democracy
- Policy Analysis as Critique
- The Origins of Policy
- Agenda Setting
- Ordering through Discourse
- Arguing, Bargaining, and Getting Agreement
- Policy Impact
- The Politics of Policy Evaluation
- Policy Dynamics
- Learning in Public Policy
- Reframing Problematic Policies
- Policy in Practice
- Policy Network Analysis
- Smart Policy?
- The Tools of Government in the Information Age
- Policy Analysis as Organizational Analysis
- Public‐Private Collaboration
- Economic Constraints on Public Policy
- Political Feasibility: Interests and Power
- Institutional Constraints on Policy
- Social and Cultural Factors : Constraining and Enabling
- Globalization and Public Policy
- Distributive and Redistributive Policy
- Market and Non‐Market Failures
- Privatization and Regulatory Regimes
- Democratizing the Policy Process
- The Logic of Appropriateness
- Ethical Dimensions of Public Policy
- Economic Techniques
- Economism and its Limits
- Policy Modeling
- Social Experimentation for Public Policy
- The Unique Methodology of Policy Research
- Choosing Governance Systems: A Plea for Comparative Research
- The Politics of Retrenchment: The US Case
- Reflections on How Political Scientists (and Others) Might Think about Energy and Policy
- Reflections on Policy Analysis: Putting it Together Again
- Name Index
- Subject Index
Abstract and Keywords
This article looks at the public choices that feature in the creation of governance systems or institutional arrangements. It emphasizes the added value that can be derived from supplementing the normal focus on the national level with comparative studies of the formation, implementation, and adaptation of these regimes that happens at the local and international levels. One section in this article explores the insights about the policy process that arise from this approach to public choice. Another section focuses on the questions that can be raised about the practical implications of these insights.
Keywords: public choices, governance systems, institutional arrangements, comparative studies, policy process, practical implications
Oran R. Young is Professor at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California (Santa Barbara) and co‐director of the Bren School's Program on Governance for Sustainable Development.
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- The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science
- [UNTITLED]
- About the Contributors
- The Public and its Policies
- The Historical Roots of the Field
- Emergence of Schools of Public Policy: Reflections by a Founding Dean
- Training for Policy Makers
- Policy Analysis as Puzzle Solving
- Policy Analysis as Critical Listening
- Policy Analysis as Policy Advice
- Policy Analysis for Democracy
- Policy Analysis as Critique
- The Origins of Policy
- Agenda Setting
- Ordering through Discourse
- Arguing, Bargaining, and Getting Agreement
- Policy Impact
- The Politics of Policy Evaluation
- Policy Dynamics
- Learning in Public Policy
- Reframing Problematic Policies
- Policy in Practice
- Policy Network Analysis
- Smart Policy?
- The Tools of Government in the Information Age
- Policy Analysis as Organizational Analysis
- Public‐Private Collaboration
- Economic Constraints on Public Policy
- Political Feasibility: Interests and Power
- Institutional Constraints on Policy
- Social and Cultural Factors : Constraining and Enabling
- Globalization and Public Policy
- Distributive and Redistributive Policy
- Market and Non‐Market Failures
- Privatization and Regulatory Regimes
- Democratizing the Policy Process
- The Logic of Appropriateness
- Ethical Dimensions of Public Policy
- Economic Techniques
- Economism and its Limits
- Policy Modeling
- Social Experimentation for Public Policy
- The Unique Methodology of Policy Research
- Choosing Governance Systems: A Plea for Comparative Research
- The Politics of Retrenchment: The US Case
- Reflections on How Political Scientists (and Others) Might Think about Energy and Policy
- Reflections on Policy Analysis: Putting it Together Again
- Name Index
- Subject Index