I. GOVERNANCE AND THE POLICY PROCESS 1. Global Governance and Public Policymaking: Trends, Actors and Values 2. Dilemmas of Democratization in the Policy Process: The Role of Experts and People Revisited 3. Participation of Civil Society Organizations in the United Nations in the Aid Effectiveness Discourse and Related Standard-Setting Negotiations 4. How Great Expectations of International Organizations are Dashed at the Local Level: The Case of EU Structural Funds II. REFLECTIONS ON POLICYMAKING AND POLICY ANALYSIS 5. Public Policy as a Practice: Reflections inspired by Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue 6. Policymaking as an Art and a Practice 7.Public Policy in the Framework of the Happiness Index 8. From Public Policy Analysis to Complex Governance Networks Studies 9. International Mechanisms of Human Capital Development and Knowledge Creation: The Role of Educational Institutions III. GLOBAL CASE STUDIES: INDIA, CHINA, EGYPT, SOUTH AFRICA, RWANDA 10. Public Policy and Corruption in a Globalized World: Case Studies from South Africa and Rwanda 11. Urban Poverty Policies and Politics in India: Public-Private Partnership in Slum Redevelopment 12. The Hukou: China's Achilles' Heel? 13. The Evolving Role of Public Policy Education 14. The Case of Housing Policy in the 'New' South Africa IV. PUBLIC POLICY IN TURKEY: SECTORAL PERSPECTIVES 15. The Evolution of Institutions of Economic Policy in Turkey 16. Anti-corruption Policy in Turkey: Instruments, Issues and Influences 17. Higher Education Policy in Turkey under Globalization 18. An Analysis of Policy Transfer: The Policy on Protecting Women against Domestic Violence in Turkey