
Provides a consistent and coherent framework for uniting the field of public policy. The authors offer a comprehensive overview of the core questions and concepts, major theoretical frameworks, primary methodological approaches, and key controversies and debates in each subfield...

The field of public policy is so broad, diffuse, and balkanized that imposing order on it from an instructor's perspective--let alone from a student's perspective-- can be a difficult and frustrating undertaking. The Public Policy Theory Primer, Fourth Edition, is designed...



Provides a consistent and coherent framework for uniting the field of public policy. The authors offer a comprehensive overview of the core questions and concepts, major theoretical frameworks, primary methodological approaches, and key controversies and debates in each subfield...

