Books written by Michael James Hill

  • Policyprocessen

    Policyprocessen

  • The Public Policy Process
    The Public Policy Process

    This text is essential reading for students of public policy, public administration and management, as well as more broadly highly relevant to related courses in health and nursing, social welfare, environment, development and local ...

  • Analysing Social Policy

    Analysing Social Policy follows on from Michael Hill's successful textbook Understanding Social Policy, explaining the concepts and theories of social policy in greater depth.

  • Exploring the World of Social Policy: An International Approach

    Authored by two highly respected and experienced academics, this book demonstrates the rewards of studying social policy from an international perspective by avoiding the constraints of a single-nation focus.

  • The Welfare State in Britain: A Political History Since 1945

    The book will be essential reading for all students of social welfare and social policy as well as the political history of Britain since 1945.

  • The Policy Process in the Modern State
    The Policy Process in the Modern State

    In an expanded and improved third edition of this classic textbook, Michael Hill has once again provided an exempary introductory account of the policy process in the modern state. Building...

  • The Policy Process: A Reader
    The Policy Process: A Reader

    A collection of extracts from the field of policy-making and implementation, from such authors as Weber, Dunleavy and Lukes. Differing approaches to the study of the policy process through theories...

  • The Policy Process in the Modern Capitalist State
    The Policy Process in the Modern Capitalist State

    The Policy Process in the Modern Capitalist State

  • The Public Policy Process
    The Public Policy Process

    This new edition offers a fundamental revision of the earlier text, with a closer emphasis on the complexity of the policy making process and it also pays more attention to variations in policy content and institutional context.

  • Understanding Social Policy
    Understanding Social Policy

    The book also examines specific areas of social policy, including the Labour initiatives on welfare reform, the reshaping of the NHS to replace the internal market with health care commissioning, and the new initiatives on education and ...

  • The Sociology of Women: An Introduction

    The Sociology of Women: An Introduction

  • Implementing Public Policy: An Introduction to the Study of Operational Governance
    Implementing Public Policy: An Introduction to the Study of Operational Governance

    "The second edition of this key text by two of the leading scholars in the field makes it the primary guide to the study of implementation"--Martin Powell Professor of Health...

  • The Policy Process in the Modern Capitalist State
    The Policy Process in the Modern Capitalist State

    This revised edition of the widely acclaimed text covers all theoretical approaches to the study of policy making and implementation. The book is essentially a study of the policy process,...

  • The Welfare State in Britain: A Political History Since 1945
    The Welfare State in Britain: A Political History Since 1945

    The Welfare State in Britain presents a history of British social policy from the election of Clement Attlee to the fall of Margaret Thatcher.Michael Hill focuses upon the political processes...

  • The Public Policy Process
    The Public Policy Process

    Explaining clearly the importance of the relationship between theoretical and practical aspects of policy-making, the book gives a thorough overview of the people and organisations involved in the process.