Public policy emerged as an academic subfield in the United States after the second World War. The theoretical foundations of the discipline are essentially based on analyses of Anglo-Saxon policies and politics and were originally aimed at providing knowledge for the policy process of...

Introduction / Pierre Ostiguy, Benjamin Moffitt, and Francisco Panizza -- Populism, hegemony and the political construction of "the people" : a discursive approach / Francisco Panizza and Yannis Stavrakakis -- Who would identify with an "empty signifier"? : the relational, performative approach...

Machine generated contents note: 1 INTRODUCTION -- 1.1 Overview -- 1.2 The Democratic Commitments to Government -- Involvement in the Macroeconomy -- 1.3 The Evolution of the Policy Commitments and of -- A/acroeconomic Performance -- 1.4 Explaining Policy and Outcome Variation across --...