Public Policy: Politics, Analysis, and Alternatives

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CQ Press, Apr 28, 2017 - Political Science - 584 pages
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.
 

Contents

10
Discussion Questions
About the Authors
What Is Public Policy?
1
10
Policy Formation figure 46
Chapter 3
Major Government Health Care Programs
Other Health Care Policy Issues
Chapter 9
10
Social Security
Welfare
2
Major Legislation

The Policy Process Model
Policy Change
Keywords
The Nature of Policy Analysis
Relevance?
Keywords
Chapter 5
2
Suggested Readings
Chapter 6
6
Decision Making and Impacts
Political and Institutional Approaches
Chapter 7
Fiscal Policy
Successes and Failures
Chapter 8
Background
Chapter 10
Political Reasons
Environmental and Energy Policy
Index
Discussion Questions
Chapter 12
Top Foreign Aid Recipients 2016 Including Military Assistance
Estimated figure 463
Notes
Chapter 13
Policy Analysis Citizen Participation and Policy Change
Conclusions
Glossary
References
Index
Moral or Ethical Reasons
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
Copyright

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About the author (2017)

Michael E. Kraft is professor emeritus of political science and public affairs at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay. He is the author of, among other works, Environmental Policy and Politics, 7th ed. (2018), and coauthor of Coming Clean: Information Disclosure and Environmental Performance (2011), with Mark Stephan and Troy D. Abel. In addition, he is the coeditor of Environmental Policy: New Directions in the 21st Century, 10th ed. (2019), with Norman J. Vig; Toward Sustainable Communities: Transition and Transformations in Environmental Policy, 2nd ed. (2009), with Daniel A. Mazmanian; and Business and Environmental Policy: Corporate Interests in the American Political System (2007) and The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Environmental Policy (2013), with Sheldon Kamieniecki. He has long taught courses in environmental policy and politics, American government, Congress, and public policy analysis.

Scott R. Furlong is Provost/Vice President for Academic Affairs at SUNY Oswego as of July 2017, after serving ten years as dean of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences and professor of political science and public affairs at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay. His areas of expertise are regulatory policy and interest group participation in the executive branch, and he has taught public policy for over twenty years. He is the author or coauthor of numerous book chapters and coauthor of Rulemaking: How Government Agencies Write Laws and Make Policy, 5th ed. (2019), with Cornelius M. Kerwin. His articles have appeared in such journals as Public Administration Review, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Administration and Society, American Review of Public Administration, and Policy Studies Journal.

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