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The SAGE Handbook of Political Sociology offers a comprehensive and contemporary look at this evolving field of study. The focus is on political life itself and the chapters, written by a highly-respected and international team of authors, cover the core themes which need to be understood in order to study political life from a sociological perspective, or simply to understand the political world. The two volumes are structured around five key areas: PART 1: TRADITIONS AND PERSPECTIVES PART 2: CORE CONCEPTS PART 03: POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES AND MOVEMENTS PART 04: TOPICS PART 05: WORLD REGIONS This future-oriented and cross-disciplinary handbook is a landmark text for students and scholars interested in the social investigation of politics.
Public Policy Formation and Implementation
Public Policy Formation and Implementation
Introduction
This chapter introduces contemporary approaches to research on public policy formation and implementation developed by sociologists, political scientists, and interdisciplinary social scientists. We have taken this broad view because most of the major theories of public policy formation straddle disciplinary boundaries. While we are in favor of interdisciplinary policy scholarship, we also think that sociologists have a great deal more to offer theories of policy formation and implementation, which are currently dominated by political scientists and economists.
Many theories see policy formation as something that is, or ought to be, understood systematically in a theory-driven and hypothesis-testing fashion. In fact, theories that do not conform to ...
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