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Paperback: 675 pages
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (1 Jan 1996)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1852785543
ISBN-13: 978-1852785543
Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 16.4 x 4 cm

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This textbook presents an up-to-date introduction to policy studies, and provides the theory and practice of public policy. Interdisciplinary and comparative in scope, it covers agenda formation and problem definition, policy making, implementation and evaluation.

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4.0 out of 5 stars What is contributed to public policy analysis by Wayne Parsons?, 12 Aug 2009

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Parsons (1995) offers a broad discussion about public policy analysis models and theories and suggests that `Policy analysis is an approach to public policy that aims to integrate and contextualize models and research from those disciplines which have a problem and policy orientation' (p. XV). He has built his reference book `Public Policy: an introduction to the theory and practice of policy analysis' on four main pedestals sections from one to four are `Meta analysis', `Meso Analysis', `Decision Analysis' and `Delivery Analysis' respectively. Because this categorising could play a core role in distinguishing of public policy processes theories from each other let me, to sum up main preferences of these accounts:

1) Meta analysis is in whole an `analysing analysis' which Parsons (1995) explains it as: 'Meta analysis is analysis concerned with the activity of analysis, in another sense, Meta analysis is concerned with understanding the idea that analysis of public policy proceeds by employing metaphors: we analyse by describing something in terms of something else. Public policy, as other forms of political analysis, uses metaphors or methods as devices to explore the `unknown' (Landau, 1991: 353) and possibly unknowable world of politics. The choice is, as Landau observes, not between models and no models, but an open and `hygienic' use so as to form a critical awareness of their assumptions, origins, and significance'(p.1).

2) `Meso analysis is the analysis of problem definition, agenda setting and the formation of policy' (Parsons 1995, p.85) which has framed relevant theories to policy analysis in policy process with a problem-focused inquiry and `improving the quality of policy' (Hill 1997, p.2) .This approach is useful for micro policy analysts of the current policies of countries or sectors.

3) Decision Analysis is the `analysis of the decision- making process and policy analysis for decision-making,...[which] falls between policy-formation and implementation' (Parsons 1995, p.245). Decision analysis in fact could be a stage of meso analysis.

4) `Delivery analysis is the analysis of implementation, evaluation, change and impact' (Parsons 1995, p.457). This sort of analysis is also a part of meso analysis but could cover a solitary research in policy implementation phase in meso and micro level.

The three later options (meso analysis and its components as decision analysis and delivery analysis) make a stages model of the analysis of the policy process to analyse a particular target policy in all stages of the process. These stages include policy orientation, policy-making, policy implementation, impact, feedback and policy reformation with no concern to generalise the finding of research to policy-making community or to introduce a macro policy-making mechanism. Meso analysis in general is concern with quality of policies and tries to improve the quality of policies, which are made in various sectors. Meta analysis provides a suitable frame to macro policy process study.

Dr. Hamid Bohloli

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