Public Policy Resources

This book addresses ten policy resources—force, law, personal, money, property rights, information, organization, consensus, time, and political support—using the same conceptual framework for each. In doing so, Peter Knoepfel is able to demonstrate their interplay, relate resources to the three relevant actor groups (political administrative actors, target groups, and beneficiaries of public policies) and to present illustrations of ways of mobilizing the resources and of managing them in a sustainable way, while also exploring the role of institutions that govern these interrelationships between actors and resources.