Public Policymaking in India

Chapter 1

 

1. Franz Von Sickingen, 1859.

2. Donald Horowitz, The Courts and Social Policy, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1977, p. 9, cited in Carl E. Van Horn, Donald C. Baumer and William T. Gormley Jr, Politics and Public Policy, 3rd edn, Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2001, p. 193.

3. Unless otherwise specified, policy refers to public policy, and policymaking to the making of public policy. Further, in order to facilitate elaboration of the policy process and politics, unless otherwise specified, this volume assumes that the policy being made is a complex policy. With less complex policies, particularly if they relate to the implementation of a widely accepted or ‘settled’ policy, the process may be simple, and politics not obvious, ...