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Public policy textbooks need to give students a thorough explanation of the policy process, but why do so many relegate policy analysis to a single, final chapter—or not cover it at all? In the third edition of their innovative text, Kraft and Furlong take a decidedly different tack. They introduce and integrate an evaluative approach to policy throughout their text, encouraging critical and creative thinking on issues ranging from economic policy and the financial bailout to homeland security and natural disasters.
Public Policy starts with the basics and concisely reviews institutions, policy actors, and major theoretical models. The authors then discuss the nature of policy analysis and its practice, and show students how to employ evaluative criteria in six substantive policy areas. At its core, Public Policy guides students through policy alternatives, arming them with analytic tools for understanding how the motivations of policy actors—both within and outside of government—influence a complex, yet comprehensible, policy agenda. Professors will appreciate its authoritative, balanced approach, and its accessibility will engage students and keep them reading.
Important features for enhanced readability include: 
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Working with Sources and Steps to Analysis feature boxes that help students apply evaluative criteria; </li>
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Policy scenario chapter openers;</li>
<li>End-of-chapter discussion questions, suggested readings and websites, and keyword lists; </li>
<li>A wealth of tables, figures, charts, and photos; and </li>
<li>A helpful keyword glossary in the appendix.</li>
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In addition to updating throughout all chapters to account for recent events, issues, and policy debates through the end of the Bush presidency, the third edition includes expanded and new coverage of: 
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<li>the mortgage crisis, financial bailout, and ensuing recession;</li>
<li>the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; </li>
<li>the use of private contractors for military support and operations; </li>
<li>homeland security and its implications for civil liberties; </li>
<li>national energy policy and high gasoline prices, including proposals for increased offshore drilling;</li>
<li>climate change issues and politics; </li>
<li>the government’s capacity to handle natural disasters, such as Hurricanes Katrina, Gustav, and Ike; and</li>
<li>immigration controversies, including construction of fencing along the U.S.-Mexican border.</li>
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Public Policy: Politics, Analysis, and Alternatives, 2nd Edition

Politics & Social Sciences

Kraft, M.

Furlong

Politics & Government

CQ Press

Public Policy, 3rd Edition + Issues For Debate In American Public Policy, 10th Edition Package

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Authoritative and classic, the seventh edition of Environmental Policy once again brings together top scholars to evaluate the impact of past environmental policy while anticipating its future implications, helping readers decipher the underlying trends, institutional constraints, and policy dilemmas that shape environmental politics. 
This new edition represents the most extensive revision to date: five new chapters include coverage of national security and the environment, China s environmental problems, domestic and international actions on climate change, conflicts over U.S. natural resource policies and collaborative ecosystem management, and the role of economics and market incentives in environmental policy. Incorporating analysis of the eight years under George W. Bush and a look ahead to the Barack Obama administration, all chapters include new scholarship, case studies, poll data, court rulings, congressional actions, agency decisions, and other events at the international, national, state, and local levels. With its clear, engaging writing, this tried and true reader makes great environmental research and scholarship accessible to an undergraduate audience.
Environmental Policy includes new coverage of: 
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<li>national energy policy </li>
<li>climate change </li>
<li>implementation of the Endangered Species Act </li>
<li>exploration for oil and natural gas on public lands </li>
<li>ecosystem management </li>
<li>the role of science in environmental policy </li>
<li>court decisions that challenge administrative rulemaking </li>
<li>the greening of industry</li>
<li>urban sustainability initiatives </li>
<li>the environmental effects of national security decisions </li>
<li>economic development and the environment</li>
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Environmental Policy: New Directions For the Twenty-First Century, 6th Edition

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