1. For surveys of the field in Canada, see
Prince, Michael J., (2007) 'Soft Craft, Hard Choices, Altered Context: Reflections on 25 Years of Policy Advice in Canada' in Dobuzinskis, Laurent, Michael Howlett and David Laycock, eds, Policy Analysis in Canada: The State of the Art (Toronto: University of Toronto Press), 161-85.
Orsini, Michael and Miriam Catherine Smith, eds, (2007) Critical Policy Studies (Vancouver ; Toronto: UBC Press).
see also
Anderson, George, (1996) 'The new focus on the policy capacity of the federal government,' Canadian Public Administration 39:4 (Winter 1996), 469-88.
For analysis of current issues in Canadian policy and public administration, see the volumes in the series How Ottawa Spends
2. For textbook introductions to policy analysis, see:
Birkland, Thomas A., (2001) An introduction to the policy process: theories, concepts, and models of public policy making (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe).
Brooks, Stephen and Lydia Miljan, (2003) Public Policy in Canada: An Introduction Fourth Edition (Toronto: Oxford University Press).
Dunn, Christopher J. C., ed. (2002) The Handbook of Canadian Public Administration (Don Mills, Ont.: Oxford University Press).
Howlett, Michael and M. Ramesh, (2003) Studying Public Policy: Policy Cycles and Policy Subsystems Second Edition (Toronto: Oxford University Press).
McCool, Daniel, ed. (1995) Public policy theories, models, and concepts: an anthology (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall).
Parsons, Wayne, (1995) Public policy: an introduction to the theory and practice of policy analysis (Edward Elgar: Aldershot, UK).
Weimer, David L., and Aidan R. Vining. Policy Analysis: Concepts and Practice . Third Edition ed. Englewood Cliffs. NJ: Prentice Hall, 1999.
Patton, Carl V., and David S. Sawicki. Basic Methods of Policy Analysis and Planning . 2nd ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1993.
3. Policy Analysis as a discipline
The Pal textbook has extensive bibliographies, so the following list is an idiosyncratic selection of leads to follow if you are interested in thinking more about the academic discipline of policy analysis:
Anderson, Charles W., (1979) 'The Place of Principles in Policy Analysis,' American Political Science Review 73: (1979), 711-23.
Bellinger, William Kenneth, (2007) The Economic Analysis of Public Policy (Abingdon, UK ; New York, NY: Routledge)
Bobrow, Davis B. and John S. Dryzek, (1987) Policy Analysis by Design (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press).
Clemons, Randall S. and Mark K. McBeth, (2001) Public Policy Praxis--Theory and Pragmatism: A Case Approach (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall).
deHaven-Smith, Lance, (1988) Philosophical Critiques of Policy Analysis: Lindblom, Habermas, and the Great Society (Gainesville: University of Florida Press).
DeLeon, Peter, (1988) Advice and Consent: The Development of the Policy Sciences (New York: Russell Sage Foundation).
DeLeon, Peter, (1997) Democracy and the policy sciences (Albany: State University of New York Press).
Dobuzinskis, Laurent, Michal Howlett and David Laycock, eds, (1996) Policy Studies in Canada: The State of the Art (Toronto: University of Toronto Press).
Ellis, Ralph D., (1998) Just results: ethical foundations for policy analysis (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press).
Fischer, Frank and John Forester, eds., (1993) The Argumentative Turn in Policy Analysis and Planning (Durham and London: Duke University Press).
Hajer, Maarten A. and H. Wagenaar, eds, (2003) Deliberative Policy Analysis: Governance in the Network Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
King, Gary, Robert O. Keohane and Sidney Verba, (1994) "The Science in Social Science," in Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research (Princeton: Princeton University Press), 3-33.
Lindblom, Charles E., (1959) 'The Science Of "Muddling Through",' Public Administration Review 19:2 (Spring, 1959), 79-88.
Majone, Giandomenico, (1989) Evidence, Argument, and Persuasion in the Policy Process (New Haven: Yale University Press).
Sabatier, Paul A., ed. (2007) Theories of the Policy Process second edition (Boulder, CO: Westview Press).
Schön, Donald A. and Martin Rein, (1994) Frame Reflection: Toward the Resolution of Intractable Policy Controversies (New York: Basic Books).
Shore, Cris and Susan Wright, eds, (1997) Anthropology of Policy: Critical Perspectives on Governance and Power (London and New York: Routledge).
Stone, Deborah A., (2002) Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making Revised Edition (New York: Norton).
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