The Public Policy Process is essential reading for anyone trying to understand the process by which public policy is made. Explaining clearly the importance of

Thoroughly revised, reorganized, updated, and expanded, this widely-used text sets the balance and fills the gap between theory and practice in public policy st

In modern industrial democracies, the making of public policy is dependent on policy analysis--the generation, discussion, and evaluation of policy alternatives

Since the passage of national welfare reform legislation in the areas of welfare, employment, health and social services have been changing rapidly. This book d

This Handbook covers the accounts, by practitioners and observers, of the ways in which policy is formed around problems, how these problems are recognized and