Policy Design for Democracy,9780700608430

Policy Design for Democracy

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ISBN13: 9780700608430
ISBN10: 0700608435
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1997-09-01
Publisher(s): Univ Pr of Kansas
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Summary

How can democracy be improved in an age when people are profoundly disenchanted with government? Part of the answer lies in the design of public policy that unmistakenly works to advance citizenship by listening to, educating, and involving ordinary people. Rather than serve mainly the narrow interests of powerful groups who are socially constructed as "deserving" or issuing discipline and punishment to powerless people socially constructed as "undeserving", public policy needs to advance citizenship, solve problems, pursue justice, and balance the interests of individuals with a concern for the collective good.

Policy Design for Democracy is a theoretically sophisticated work that draws examples from a wide array of public policy arenas. It summarizes four current approaches to policy theory -- pluralism, policy sciences, public choice, and critical theory -- and shows how none offers more than a partial view of the policy design characteristics that support and perpetuate democracy. Schneider and Ingram then develop a theory of public policymaking predicate

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables
vii(2)
Preface ix
1. Policy Design and Democracy
1(12)
Policy Design
2(1)
The Crisis of Democracy and Citizenship
3(2)
The Central Contention
5(2)
Policy Theory and the Crisis of Democracy
7(3)
Purpose and Organization of the Book
10(3)
2. A Pluralist View of Public Policy
13(16)
Central Concepts and Theoretical Logic
14(7)
The Critics: Neo, Reform, and Critical
21(4)
Pluralist Theory and Policy Design
25(4)
3. Alternatives to Pluralism
29(37)
The Policy Sciences
29(9)
Public Choice
38(13)
Critical Theories
51(15)
4. Foundations, Elements, and Consequences of Design
66(36)
Evolution of Policy Design Theory
68(5)
Policy Design, Policy Contexts, and Dynamic Processes
73(8)
Design Elements and Effects on Democratic Values
81(20)
Conclusion
101(1)
5. Social Constructions of Target Populations: Degenerative Policy Designs
102(48)
Degenerative Policy-Making Contexts
102(10)
Choosing Targets for Benefits and Burdens
112(17)
Tools, Rules, and Rationales
129(6)
Implementation and Target Populations
135(5)
Translation Dynamics: Implications for Justice, Citizenship, and Democracy
140(5)
Dynamics and Pathologies
145(5)
6. Social Constructions of Knowledge: Scientific and Professional Policy Designs
150(39)
Scientific and Professional Issue Contexts
151(20)
Characteristics of Scientific/Professional Design Elements
171(10)
Translation Dynamics: Implications for Justice, Citizenship, and Democracy
181(4)
Societal Consequences and Pathologies
185(2)
Conclusion
187(2)
7. Conclusions
189(20)
Contributions and Limitations of Policy Theories
189(2)
Characteristics of Policy Designs That Damage Democracy
191(7)
Theoretical Contributions and Applications
198(5)
Applications to Real-World Policy Design
203(6)
References 209(18)
Index 227

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