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Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781506358154
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1506358154
• Author: Michael E. Kraft, Scott R. Furlong

In Public 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, authors Michael Kraft and Scott Furlong introduce and fully integrate an evaluative approach to policy. The Sixth Edition of Public Policy offers 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.

Table contents:

PART I: THE STUDY OF PUBLIC POLICY
Chapter 1. Public Policy and Politics

Chapter 2. Government Institutions and Policy Actors

Chapter 3. Understanding Public Policymaking

PART II: ANALYZING PUBLIC POLICY
Chapter 4. Policy Analysis: An Introduction

Chapter 5. Public Problems and Policy Alternatives

Chapter 6. Assessing Policy Alternatives

PART III: ISSUES AND CONTROVERSIES IN PUBLIC POLICY
Chapter 7. Economic and Budgetary Policy

Chapter 8. Health Care Policy

Chapter 9. Welfare and Social Security Policy

Chapter 10. Education Policy

Chapter 11. Environmental and Energy Policy

Chapter 12. Foreign Policy and Homeland Security

PART IV: CONCLUSIONS
Chapter 13. Politics, Analysis, and Policy Choice

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