Policy Choices and Public Action - Hardcover

Bonser, Charles F.; McGregor, Eugene B.; Oster, Clinton V., Jr.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 013442591X ISBN 13: 9780134425917

Publisher: Pearson College Div, 1995

Synopsis

Written from an interdisciplinary perspective, this text takes a problem-solving approach to critical, public policy problems that persist in society. The book examines the processes by which policies are developed, implemented, managed and changed - highlighting the role of government agencies and the bureaucracies as well as the growing role of non-governmental organizations. It addresses persistent critical public policy issues, including health policy, environmental policy and economic policy. The book places the American experience into the context of other developed or developing countries.

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Written from an interdisciplinary perspective, this text takes a problem- solving approach to critical, public policy problems that persist in our society.

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Key Benefit: Written from an interdisciplinary perspective, this book takes a problem-solving approach to critical, public policy problems that persist in our society. Key Topics: It takes an interdisciplinary perspective to show how developing successful public policy requires integrating perspectives from a variety of disciplines. It draws on the authors' multidisciplinary backgrounds and their government experience working with multidisciplinary teams and examines the processes by which policies are developed, implemented, managed, and changed — highlighting the role of government agencies and the bureaucracies as well as the growing role of non-governmental organizations. It also addresses managerial issues associated with implementing public policy — public ethics, privatization, total quality management, and recent efforts to reinvent government and reform public management and weaves a comparative and an international element throughout to place the American experience into the context of other developed and developing countries.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson College Div
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 013442591X
• ISBN 13: 9780134425917
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 494