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The Second Edition of Understanding Family Policy continues to provide the conceptual framework, offered in the First Edition, which enables students and professionals to examine and analyze government policies and their impact on the family. Features new to this edition include: new theoretical frameworks and their applications; an update of the recent history of family policy; a reinforcement of the link between theory and the everyday life experiences people have with the policy process; and study questions and a glossary.
Interest Group Theory, Elite Theory, and Systems Theory
Interest Group Theory, Elite Theory, and Systems Theory
The policy frameworks presented in this chapter are different from those presented in the previous chapters. The ones presented here focus less on the processes immediately involved in policy choice than on some of the factors external to the choice situation that influence it. The theories presented here—group theory, elite theory, and systems theory—contrast with the frameworks presented in Chapters 5, 6, 7 and differ from one another in important ways as well. What brings them together conceptually in this chapter is that they provide a way for thinking about influences that although impinging on policy choice are both internal and external to the choice situation. Systems theory conceptualizes these ...
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