This revised edition begins by defining American public policy and its environments, as well as identifying the governmental structures through which policy is designed and reshaped. Then it explains the procedure of policy making, from the agenda-setting stage to implementation through evaluation. The author analyzes the problems, goals, and important issues in various substantive policy areas, including economic, environmental, and defence policy. Part four is devoted to an explanation of policy analysis, in a cost-benefit and an ethical context.
- ISBN10 1566430674
- ISBN13 9781566430678
- Publish Date 31 March 1999
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 January 2011
- Publish Country US
- Publisher SAGE Publications Inc
- Imprint Chatham House Publishers Inc.,U.S.
- Edition 5th edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 400
- Language English