Subject(s): Policy sciences. -- Bureaucracy. -- Studying policy process -- Policy analysis -- Public policy -- Policy theories -- Pluralist theory -- Marxism -- Structuralist perspective -- Economic determinism without Marxism -- Globalisation, globalization -- Pluralism to network -- Corporatist theory or corporatism -- Policy networks and policy communities -- Coalition approach -- Network theory -- Institutional theory -- rational choice theory -- Political market place -- Game theory -- Economic theory of bureaucracy -- Limitations of rational choice approaches -- Integrating theoretical approaches -- Analysis of policy process -- Types of policy and stages in the process -- Economy -- Income maintenance -- Education -- Pollution -- Local government -- Policy types and stages -- Policy issues -- Agenda setting -- Rational model of policy decision making to incrementalism -- Kingdon's approach -- Pension policy -- Policy formulation -- Policy transfer -- Civil servant and policy formulation -- Policy implementation -- Top-down approach -- Bottom-up alternatives -- Administrative system -- Importance of organisational processes -- Organisation as bureaucracy -- Max weber and the theory of bureaucracy -- Development of the sociology of organisation -- Rules and discretion -- Organisational sociology -- Inter-organisational process -- Policy process at the street level -- Bureaucratic behaviour and the bureaucratic personality -- Street level bureaucracy -- Mashaw's approach -- Evaluation and accountability -- New public management