This brand new text examines power and inequalities and how these are central to our understanding of how policies are made and implemented. It introduces the concepts and theoretical approaches that underpin the study of the policy process, reflects upon key developments and applies these the practice of policy formulation and implementation.

CATHERINE BOCHEL is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Lincoln, UK.

1. Public policy and policy analysis
2. Perspectives on policy making
3. Power and policy
4. Key trends
5. Central government
6. Multi-level governance
7. Government at arms-length
8. Evaluating policies
9. Conclusions.