Public Policy in the United States: At the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century - Softcover

Mark E. Rushefsky

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0765616645 ISBN 13: 9780765616647

Publisher: Routledge, 2007

Synopsis

This widely respected book offers a unique dualistic view of the policy process. First, it introduces readers to the American approach to public policy making as it has been shaped by our political institutions, changing circumstances, and ideology. Second, it informs readers concisely and even-handedly about U.S. policies in eight major policy realms, with well selected illustrations, case studies, and study questions. In addition to providing analytical tools and empirical information, the book imparts an appreciation of the widely shared but often competing values that must be balanced and rebalanced in the ongoing policy-making process, affecting issues of the highest concern to the American public. For this new edition, all of the policy chapters, especially those on economic policy, foreign policy, the environment, and education, have been very substantially revised and updated.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0765616645
• ISBN 13: 9780765616647
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 496