Public Policy: Politics, Analysis, and AlternativesIn 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 | |
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Public Policy: Politics, Analysis, and Alternatives Michael E. Kraft,Scott R. Furlong Limited preview - 2017 |
Public Policy: Politics, Analysis, and Alternatives Michael E. Kraft,Scott R. Furlong No preview available - 2017 |
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