TY - BOOK AU - Kraft,Michael E. AU - Furlong,Scott R. TI - Public policy: politics, analysis, and alternatives SN - 9781506358154 U1 - 320.60973 KR PU PY - 2018/// CY - Thousand Oaks, CA PB - CQ Press, an imprint of SAGE Publications KW - Policy sciences KW - Evaluation KW - Political planning KW - Citizen participation KW - United States KW - Public administration N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 529-541) and index N2 - In Public Policy: Politics, Analysis, and Alternatives, students come to understand how and why policy analysis is used to assess policy alternatives. To encourage critical and creative thinking on issues ranging from the federal deficit to health care reform to climate change, authors Michael Kraft and Scott Furlong introduce and fully integrate an evaluative approach to policy. The Sixth Edition of Public Policy offers a fully revised, concise review of institutions, policy actors, and major theoretical models as well as a discussion of the nature of policy analysis and its practice. Both the exposition and data have been updated to reflect major policy controversies and developments through the end of 2016, including new priorities of the Donald Trump administration UR - https://uowd.box.com/s/dymp5h5wyozul8g7tpw8jkc8hzuge3ps ER -