Public Policy: Politics, Analysis, and Alternatives

Kraft, Michael E.; Furlong, Scott R.

ISBN 10: 1506358152 / ISBN 13: 9781506358154

Edité par CQ Press, 2017

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Public Policy: Politics, Analysis, and Alternatives
• Éditeur: CQ Press
• Date de parution: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1506358152
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781506358154
• Reliure: paperback
• État de l'article: Good
• Poids: 34 onces

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Synopsis

This book teaches students to understand how and why policy analysis is used to assess policy alternatives―not only to question the assumptions of policy analysts, but to recognize how analysis is used in support of political arguments.

À propos des auteurs

Michael E. Kraft is professor emeritus of political science

and public affairs at the University of Wisconsin–Green

Bay. He is the author of, among other works, Environmental

Policy and Politics, 8th ed. (2022), and coauthor of

Coming Clean: Information Disclosure and Environmental

Performance (2011), with Mark Stephan and Troy D. Abel.

In addition, he is the coeditor of Environmental Policy:

New Directions in the 21st Century, 12th ed. (2025), with

Barry G. Rabe and Norman J. Vig; Toward Sustainable

Communities: Transition and Transformations in Environmental Policy, 2nd ed. (2009), with

Daniel A. Mazmanian; and Business and Environmental Policy: Corporate Interests in the

American Political System (2007) and The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Environmental Policy (2013),

with Sheldon Kamieniecki. For over forty years, he taught courses in environmental policy and

politics, American government, Congress, and public policy analysis.

Scott R. Furlong is provost/vice president for academic

affairs at the State University of New York at Oswego as

of July 2017, after serving ten years as dean of the College

of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences and professor

of political science and public affairs at the University of

Wisconsin–Green Bay. His areas of expertise are regulatory

policy and interest group participation in the executive

branch, and he has taught public policy for over twenty

years. He is the author or coauthor of many book chapters

and coauthor of Rulemaking: How Government Agencies

Write Laws and Make Policy, 5th ed. (2019), with Cornelius

M. Kerwin. His articles have appeared in such journals as Public Administration Review, Journal

of Public Administration Research and Theory, Administration and Society, American Review of

Public Administration, and Policy Studies Journal.