Public Policy: Perspectives and Choices, Fifth Edition
Language: English
Published by Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc, 2014
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Provides students with the tools that they need to analyse and assess the nation's public policies for years to come. The authors combine a clear explanation of the basic concepts and methods of the policymaking process with a keen focus on how values influence policy choices. They then apply this foundation to a range of policy areas.
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- Title
- Public Policy: Perspectives and Choices, Fifth Edition
- Author
- Charles L Cochran
- Publisher
- Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc
- Publication year
- 2014
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1626370753
- ISBN 13
- 9781626370753
- Edition
- 5th or later Edition
The authors combine a clear explanation of the basic concepts and methods of the policymaking process with a keen focus on how values influence policy choices. They then apply this foundation to a range of policy areas.
The fully updated text:
• Presents complicated ideas in an accessible way
• Engages with controversies, bringing the study of public policy alive
• Draws on a wealth of "real world" examples
• Provides balanced consideration of liberal and conservative policy positions
• Emphasizes the relationship between individual and national interests
- Why Study Public Policy.
- Tools for Policy Analysis.
- Polarized Politics: The Policy Context.
- Political Economy: The Basis of Public Policy.
- Funding Public Policy: From Theory to Practice.
- The Politics and Economics of Inequality.
- Education: A Troubled Federal-State Relationship.
- Criminal Justice: Responding to Evolving Concerns.
- Health Care: Diagnosing a Chronic Problem.
- Housing: Public Policy and the "American Dream."
- The Environment: Issues on a Global Scale.
- Rethinking National Security Policy.
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