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This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book. Updated it its 14th edition, Understanding Public Policy focuses on the policy challenges confronting the Obama administration. This edition provides students with a close up look at the American healthcare system, current economic policies, issues of homeland security and defense policy among many other current event and issues shaping public policy today. The gold-standard for introductory public policy texts, Understanding Public Policy is designed to provide readers with concrete tools for both understanding and analyzing public policy.
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This introduction to the models political scientists use to describe and explain political life explores what policies governments pursue, why governments pursue the policies they do, and what the consequences of these policies are.
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This widely-adopted introduction to the field focuses on what policies governments pursue, why governments pursue the policies they do, and what the consequences of these policies are. Explores the following nine analytical models in political science and the potential contribution of each of them to the study of public policy: Institutional, Process, Group, Elite, Rational, Incremental, Public choice, Systems, and Game theory. Using these various analytical models, singly and in combination, this book explores specific public policies in a variety of key domestic policy areas.
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