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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... Read Full Overview

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Understanding Public Policy provides an introduction to the study of public policy, as well as an overview of the models that political scientists use to describe and explain political life. Offering readers the tools needed to analyze public policy,... Read Full Overview

This work concentrates on a variety of concepts and analytic models of politics which political scientists use to describe and explain such major public policy areas as civil rights, criminal justice, national defence, education, taxation and more.

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.

Key Benefit
Understanding Public Policy provides an introduction to the study of public policy, as well as an overview of the models that political scientists use to describe and explain political life. Offering readers the tools needed to analyze public policy,... Read Full Overview

This leading introduction to public policy is designed to provide learners with concrete tools for not only understanding public policy in general, but for analyzing "specific" public policies. It focuses on "what" policies governments pursue, "why" governments pursue the policies... Read Full Overview

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.