Provides a conceptual framework to help political science students understand the public policy process in the United States. Emphasizes the evolution of public policy analysis through a unique historical perspective while discussing how policy is currently formulated. Balances conservative and liberal approaches to public policy. Includes chapters on the policy process and on several substantive areas: education, welfare, crime and the environment.

Public Policy: An Evolutionary Approach

Education & Teaching

Stewart, Jr. Joseph

Lester, James P.

Schools & Teaching

Wadsworth Publishing

A unique historical perspective emphasizes the evolution of public policy analysis while discussing how policy is currently formulated.

PUBLIC POLICY: AN EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH, 3e, examines how the substance and process of public policy and our understanding of that have evolved in America. After providing the reader with an analytic, historic and contextual framework for viewing public policy in the U.S., the authors offer a comprehensive look at the various elements of the governing process including agenda setting and problem definition, policy formation, implementation, program evaluation, and policy change and termination. In doing that the authors pay particular attention to the range of theories that have been offered to explain how, why, and with what effects governments act. The authors then look at three critical policy areas - environment, education, and welfare - to further illustrate how governing proceeds in the U.S.. Throughout the text the authors draw extensively on actual policy examples including recent efforts to reform education and welfare and the war in Iraq.

Hedge, David M.

Cengage Learning'

One of the most critical areas of environmental controls is the regulation and management of hazardous wastes. This book examines the political context in which policy and management decisions in this are are made (state and federal, public and private), discusses implementation of the current policy mandate (the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act), and its financing (the Superfund). The contributors analyze specific cases and assess the evolution of hazardous waste regulation at federal, state, and local levels.

The Politics of Hazardous Waste Management

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Duke Univ Pr

Environmental Politics And Policy

Science & Math

Duke University Press

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