The Problem of Policy Problems
- 1 December 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Informa UK Limited in Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice
- Vol. 7 (4), 349-370
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13876980500319204
Abstract
Although conceptions of policy design have well-developed conceptions of the instruments used to address public problems, they have much less developed conceptions of those problems themselves. This article proposes one analytic scheme for understanding the nature of policy problems and issues, and begins to relate the choice of instruments to the nature of the underlying problems for society.This publication has 21 references indexed in Scilit:
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