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Public Policy: The Competitive Framework »

Authors: Ewen J. Michael, Ewen J. Michael
ISBN-13: 9780195555264, ISBN-10: 0195555260
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: December 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Ewen J. Michael

Book Synopsis

In an readily accessible style, Public Policy: The Competitive Framework provides a complete explanation of how public policy is formed and why. The book presents a new interpretation of public policy analysis that is synthesised with market segmentation theory, allowing the model to be applied to differing market and social situations that require a public decision to be made.

1	Introduction : the policy problem	1
2	What is the state?	10
3	The market system at work	42
4	Issues in public economics	55
5	Market failure and intervention	81
6	Decision making : who influences whom?	98
7	Interest groups and the theory of market segmentation	123
8	Competition	146
9	Privatisation and the economics of interest groups	165
10	Community service obligations : a strategy to avoid collective failure	185
11	Accountability and the democratic process	206