The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science is a ten-volume set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of political science. This volume, the Oxford Handbook of Public Policy, surveys all the major approaches to public policy using an innovative structure that responds to the very latest scholarship. Its chapters touch upon institutional and historical sources and analytical methods, how policy is made, how it is evaluated and how it is constrained. In these ways, the Handbook shows how the combined wisdom of political science as a whole can be brought to bear on political attempts to improve the human condition.

牛津政治学手册》是一套十卷本的参考书，对政治学的现状进行了权威性的、有吸引力的批评性概述。本卷《牛津公共政策手册》采用一种创新的结构，对公共政策的所有主要方法进行了调查，以回应最新的学术研究。其各章涉及机构和历史来源以及分析方法、政策如何制定、如何评估以及如何制约。通过这些方式，《手册》展示了如何将政治科学的综合智慧用于改善人类状况的政治尝试。