Names: Berman, Elizabeth Popp, 1975–author. Title: Thinking like an economist: how
efficiency replaced equality in US public policy/Elizabeth Popp Berman. Description: Prince …

The second edition of this highly regarded book provides a concise and accessible
introduction to the principles and elements of policy design in contemporary governance. It …

Theories of the Policy Process provides a forum for experts in the most established and
widely used theoretical frameworks in policy process research to present the basic …

This dissertation reports on a seminal study of the genesis, development, and current
character of organic production in California. It shows that the recent boom in organic …

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent
chapters of this book. The book provides the state of policy theory by presenting several of …

Like many other political concepts, regulation is hard to define, not least because it means
different things to different people. The term is employed for a myriad of discursive …

advancement of the regulatory state. They were fighting a proposed consumer protection
agency, trying to stop labor-law reform, and responding to a general sense that the values of …

We call on policy scholars to take seriously the role of policies as governing instruments and
to consider more fully the factors that shape their political impacts. We suggest that the lens …

Though research on student attrition is plentiful and debate over theories of student
persistence vigorous, less attention has been paid to the development of a model of …

Most people believe that large corporations wield enormous political power when they lobby
for policies as a cohesive bloc. With this controversial book, Mark A. Smith sets conventional …