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It is widely recognized that the formulation, implementation and evaluation of public policy in contemporary advanced market economies is an extremely complex process and often contains idiosyncratic elements not readily amenable to the abstract reasoning typical of the social sciences. Nevertheless, scholars from a wide range of disciplines have long been intrigued by the policymaking process and have developed a number of positive theories about how policymaking actually works and several normative models offering conceptual guidelines on how policymaking should work. Our book lies within this broad tradition.
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Wallis, J., Dollery, B. (1999). Introduction. In: Market Failure, Government Failure, Leadership and Public Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230372962_1
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