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Understanding Public Policy
ISBN: 9780136131472 | 0136131476
Edition: 12thFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2008
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For undergraduate-level courses in Public Policy.Understanding Public Policy is not only an introduction to the study of public policy, but also an introduction to the models that political scientists use to describe and explain political life.This market-leading introduction to public policy is designed to provide undergraduate and graduate students with concrete tools for not only understanding public policy in general, but for analyzing specific public policies. It focuses on what policies governments pursue, why governments pursue the polic... MORE
| Policy Analysis: What Governments Do, Why They Do It, and What Difference it Makes | |
| Models of Politics: Some Help in Thinking about Public Policy | |
| The Policymaking Process: Decision-Making Activities | |
| Criminal Justice: Rationality and Irrationality in Public Policy | |
| Health and Welfare: The Search for Rational Strategies | |
| Education: The Group Struggle | |
| Economic Policy: Incrementalism... MORE | |
| Tax Policy: Battling the Special Interests | |
| International Trade and Immigration: Elite-Mass Conflict | |
| Environmental Policy: Externalities and Interests | |
| Civil Rights: Elite and Mass Interaction | |
| American Federalism: Institutional Arrangements and Public Policy | |
| Defense Policy: Strategies for Serious Games | |
| Homeland Security: Terrorism and Non-Deterable Threats | |
| Policy Evaluation: Finding Out What Happens after a Law Is Passed | |
| Index | |
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