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Institutional Incentives and Sustainable Development (Theoretical Lenses on Public Policy)
Published in Paperback by Westview Press (1993)
Authors: Elinor Ostrom, Larry Schroeder, Susan Wynne, and Paul A. Sabatier
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Alternative views on infrastructure development
Interdisciplinary analysis that highlights the role of incentives in sustainable rural infrastructure. Survey of ideas and many project examples.


Theories of the Policy Process (Theoretical Lenses on Public Policy)
Published in Paperback by Westview Press (1999)
Author: Paul A. Sabatier
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A good overview of an exciting field
Tired of trying to keep up with the pace in public policy research? Ta-da! Theories of the Policy Process offers some nice introductory essays on current public policy research, with a focus on (guess what...) theoretical developments. Each major theory is given a chapter of its own, written by distinguished scholars, often the actual parents of the theories. Among the theories covered are Institutional Rational Choice (by Ostrom), Multiple Streams and Garbage Can (by Zahariadis - not Kingdon), Advocacy Coalitions (by Sabatier and Jenkins-Smith) and Punctuated Equilibrium (by True, Baumgartner and Jones). The collection ends with a very good synthesizing chapter by Schlager, where the theories are compared and essential diffrences are higlighted.

This collection is extremely useful to get updated on the latest developments in Public Policy. Lots of good, fresh references, and very accessible and authoritative introductions to the field. Yet, since the collection does not offer anything substantially new, a fifth star is not motivated. Still a very good buy.

I would not recommend it for use in introductory public policy-courses, though. Too abstract and theoretical for that. This is for people already familiar with the field.


The Road to Assisi: The Essential Biography of St. Francis
Published in Hardcover by Paraclete Press (2003)
Authors: Paul Sabatier and Jon M. Sweeney
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Invaluable text, invasive editing
Professor Sabatier's long-out-of-print work is the ur-text of Francis biographies, the one to which most of the contemporary biographers refer most centrally in their own work (Julien Green in particular). Therefore, reading this text in its particular historical and scholarly context is essential; to truly appreciate Sabatier's intervention into the popular and scholarly understanding of St. Francis is to have ready reference to the body of work, and the weight of tradition, to which Sabatier was responding. Unfortunately, Mr. Sweeney sees fit to excise just this apparatus in his "edition" of Sabatier; he cuts out Sabatier's Introduction, condenses several chapters, and replaces Sabatier's footnotes and bibliography with his own commentaries and explanations of the text, set right into the margins of Sabatier's own text, and a cursory bibliography that cuts out the vast majority of Sabatier's own points of reference. Scholars are left without resources for critical or comparative study, and readers who wish to learn more about Francis are pushed into Mr. Sweeney's particular framework of understanding with little warning. I hope another more reputable publisher sees fit to reprint Sabatier's seminal work in an uncompromised edition; until that happens, let the reader beware.


Academics and the Legislature: Case Studies in Scientific Advice (Monograph Series (Univ of Calif Davis. Inst of Govtl Affairs), No 18)
Published in Paperback by Univ of California Goverment (1984)
Author: Paul Sabatier
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Can Regulation Work?: The Implementation of the 1972 California Coastal Initiative
Published in Hardcover by Plenum Pub Corp (1983)
Author: Paul A. and Mazmanian, Daniel A. Sabatier
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Great Expectations and Mixed Performance
Published in Paperback by Stylus Pub (01 December, 1999)
Authors: Ladislav Cerych and Paul Sabatier
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Implementation and Public Policy
Published in Paperback by University Press of America (29 September, 1989)
Authors: Daniel A. Mazmanian and Paul A. Sabatier
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Implementation and Public Policy With a New Postscript
Published in Paperback by University Press of America (1989)
Authors: Daniel A. Mazmanian and Paul A. Sabatier
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Nuclear Dynamics in the Nucleonic Regime (Fundamental and Applied Nuclear Physics Series)
Published in Hardcover by Institute of Physics Pub (2001)
Authors: Dominique Durand, Eric Suraud, Bernard Tamain, and Paul Sabatier
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Paléogéographie et biogéographie de l'Himalaya et du sous-continent indien : comptes rendus de la table ronde tenue à l'Université Paul-Sabatier de Toulouse (Laboratoire de zoologie) 27-28 avril 1979
Published in Unknown Binding by Editions du Centre national de la recherche scientifique ()
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