MAKING PUBLIC POLICY

Published date01 June 2006
Date01 June 2006
DOIhttp://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9299.2006.00018.x
AuthorChris Painter
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© Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2006 Public Administration Vol. 84, No. 2, 2006 (479–515)
MAKING PUBLIC POLICY
Mark Considine
Polity Press, 2005, 262 pp., £15.99 (pb) ISBN: 0745627544
Many books on policy analysis even-handedly set out to evaluate a range of
models of the policy process. This contribution very much inclines towards
a particular theoretical perspective, namely new institutionalism . In this
respect it assumes the character of an interpretative essay, hence Considine s
preoccupation with the repercussions for policy making of institutional
embeddedness. Policy interventions call for successful negotiation of the
channels provided by established institutional arrangements. Nonetheless,
in order to achieve desired policy outcomes, the author emphasizes that

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