Arenas of Power : Reflections on Politics and Policy

Shows the evolution of the public policy arena over years of writing and thinking and presents some material including helpful analytical introductions. This book looks ahead to an internationalizing US political economy and the need for a global political science.

Arenas of Power represents the first time that Theodore J. Lowi''s model of policy analysis has been presented together with key applications and case studies drawn from his long history of scholarship-all in one place. Lowi''s signature four-fold typology is shown as conceived and then as extended to include that most relevant of contemporary phenomena-"social regulatory policy." As Lowi says, when radicals add morality to the goals of public policy, the system may be turned on its head. This volume shows the evolution of the public policy arena over more than forty years of writing and thinking and presents some never before published material including helpful analytical introductions. The book concludes as Lowi looks ahead to an internationalizing U.S. political economy and the need for a global political science.