Public Policy: Politics, Analysis, and Alternatives

✍ Scribed by Michael E. Kraft; Scott R Furlong

Publisher: CQ Press
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 824
Edition: Paperback
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

InPublic Policy: Politics, Analysis, and Alternatives, students come to understand how and why policy analysis is used to assess policy alternatives. To encourage critical and creative thinking on issues ranging from the federal deficit to health care reform to climate change, authorsMichael KraftandScott Furlongintroduce and fully integrate an evaluative approach to policy. TheSixth EditionofPublic Policyoffers a fully revised, concise review of institutions, policy actors, and major theoretical models as well as a discussion of the nature of policy analysis and its practice. Both the exposition and data have been updated to reflect major policy controversies and developments through the end of 2016, including new priorities of the Donald Trump administration.

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