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Public policy : politics, analysis, and alternatives / Michael E. Kraft and Scott R. Furlong.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Thousand Oaks, California ; London : Sage-CQ Press, 2025Edition: Eighth editionDescription: xxix, 532 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781071858394
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.60973 K855p 23/eng/20240402
LOC classification:
  • H97 .K73 2025
Contents:
Part I. The study of public policy -- Public policy and politics -- Government institutions and policy actors -- Understanding public policymaking -- Part II. Analyzing public policy -- Policy analysis: an introduction -- Pubic problems and policy alternatives -- Assessing policy alternatives -- Part III. Issues and controversies in public policy -- Economic and budgetary policy -- Healthcare policy -- Welfare and social security policy -- Education policy -- Environmental and energy policy -- Foreign policy and homeland security -- Part IV. Conclusions -- Politics, analysis and policy choice.
Summary: "Public Policy: Politics, Analysis, and Alternatives, Eighth Edition helps students understand how and why policy analysis is used to assess policy alternatives. The text encourages them to not only question the assumptions of policy analysts, but also recognize how various strategies are used in support of political arguments"--Publisher's website.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 517-528) and index.

Part I. The study of public policy -- Public policy and politics -- Government institutions and policy actors -- Understanding public policymaking -- Part II. Analyzing public policy -- Policy analysis: an introduction -- Pubic problems and policy alternatives -- Assessing policy alternatives -- Part III. Issues and controversies in public policy -- Economic and budgetary policy -- Healthcare policy -- Welfare and social security policy -- Education policy -- Environmental and energy policy -- Foreign policy and homeland security -- Part IV. Conclusions -- Politics, analysis and policy choice.

"Public Policy: Politics, Analysis, and Alternatives, Eighth Edition helps students understand how and why policy analysis is used to assess policy alternatives. The text encourages them to not only question the assumptions of policy analysts, but also recognize how various strategies are used in support of political arguments"--Publisher's website.

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