Abstract
Whenever a policy is announced, whether it be a different approach to economic affairs, enabling schools to ‘opt out’ or creating an internal market in health care, there is usually a great deal of media and academic speculation on its probable outcomes and rather less concern about how and why the policy emerged. This chapter attempts to redress the balance by outlining a range of theories which have offered explanations about the process of making policy. It will end by raising some key issues which will be revisited in subsequent chapters.
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North, N. (1997). Policy Processes. In: North, N., Bradshaw, Y. (eds) Perspectives in Health Care. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13469-4_2
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