Public policy : an evolutionary approach
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Public policy : an evolutionary approach
Thomson/Wadsworth, c2008
3rd ed
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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PUBLIC POLICY: AN EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH, 3e, examines how the substance and process of public policy and our understanding of that have evolved in America. After providing the reader with an analytic, historic and contextual framework for viewing public policy in the U.S., the authors offer a comprehensive look at the various elements of the governing process including agenda setting and problem definition, policy formation, implementation, program evaluation, and policy change and termination. In doing that the authors pay particular attention to the range of theories that have been offered to explain how, why, and with what effects governments act. The authors then look at three critical policy areas environment, education, and welfare to further illustrate how governing proceeds in the U.S.. Throughout the text the authors draw extensively on actual policy examples including recent efforts to reform education and welfare and the war in Iraq.
Table of Contents
Preface.
PART I: THE CONTEXT OF PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES.
1. The Nature of Public Policy.
2. The Evolution of Public Policy and Politics in America.
3. Approaches to Public Analysis.
4. Models and Public Policy Studies.
PART II: ANALYSIS IN THE POLICY PROCESS.
5. Agenda Setting.
6. Policy Formulation.
7. Policy Implementation.
8. Policy Evaluation.
9. Policy Change and Termination.
PART III: ANALYZING PUBLIC POLICY CHOICES.
10. Educational Policy.
11. Welfare Policy.
12. Environmental Policy.
PART IV: CONCLUSIONS.
13. Utilizing Policy Analysis.
14. Taking Stock: The Evolution of Public Policy in America.
INDEX.
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