Understanding Public Policy (12th Edition) - Hardcover

Dye, Thomas R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0136131476 ISBN 13: 9780136131472

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2007

Synopsis

For undergraduate-level courses in Public Policy.

 

Understanding Public Policy is not only an introduction to the study of public policy, but also an introduction to the models that political scientists use to describe and explain political life.

 

This leading  introduction to public policy is designed to provide undergraduate and graduate students with concrete tools for not only understanding public policy in general, but for analyzing specific public policies. It focuses on what policies governments pursue, why governments pursue the policies they do, and what the consequences of these policies are. Very contemporary in perspective, it introduces eight analytical models currently used by political scientists to describe and explain political life and then, using these various analytical models—singly and in combination—explores specific public policies in a variety of key domestic policy areas.

About this title

From the Publisher:

This introduction to the models political scientists use to describe and explain political life explores what policies governments pursue, why governments pursue the policies they do, and what the consequences of these policies are.

From the Back Cover:

This widely-adopted introduction to the field focuses on what policies governments pursue, why governments pursue the policies they do, and what the consequences of these policies are. Explores the following nine analytical models in political science and the potential contribution of each of them to the study of public policy: Institutional, Process, Group, Elite, Rational, Incremental, Public choice, Systems, and Game theory. Using these various analytical models, singly and in combination, this book explores specific public policies in a variety of key domestic policy areas.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0136131476
• ISBN 13: 9780136131472
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 368