Public Policy by Michael E Kraft

Public Policy by Michael E Kraft

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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:

• Working with Sources and Steps to Analysis feature boxes that help students apply evaluative criteria;
• Policy scenario chapter openers;
• End-of-chapter discussion questions, suggested readings and websites, and keyword lists;
• A wealth of tables, figures, charts, and photos; and
• A helpful keyword glossary in the appendix.

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:

• the mortgage crisis, financial bailout, and ensuing recession;
• the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq;
• the use of private contractors for military support and operations;
• homeland security and its implications for civil liberties;
• national energy policy and high gasoline prices, including proposals for increased offshore drilling;
• climate change issues and politics;
• the government's capacity to handle natural disasters, such as Hurricanes Katrina, Gustav, and Ike; and
• immigration controversies, including construction of fencing along the U.S.-Mexican border.

Michael E. Kraft is Professor of Political Science and Public Affairs Emeritus and Herbert Fisk Johnson Professor of Environmental Studies Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He completed his undergraduate work at the University of California, Riverside, and he received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Political Science from Yale University. From 1977 to 2013 he taught at UW-Green Bay, where he offered courses on environmental politics and policy, public policy analysis, Congress, and environmental science and policy. He also has held visiting faculty appointments at Oberlin College and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Among other works, he is co-author of Coming Clean: Information Disclosure and Environmental Performance (MIT Press 2011), co-author of Public Policy: Politics, Analysis, and Alternatives (CQ Press, 4th edition, 2013); and co-editor and contributing author of Environmental Policy (CQ Press, 8th ed., 2013); The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Environmental Policy (2013); Business and Environmental Policy (MIT Press, 2007); and Toward Sustainable Communities: Transition and Transformations in Environmental Policy (MIT Press, 2nd ed. 2009). He also serves as co-editor of a book series, American and Comparative Environmental Policy, at MIT Press. Kraft's research interests focus on U.S. environmental policy and politics, and his most recent project dealt with the impact of information disclosure programs on corporate environmental performance in the United States. It used the federal Toxics Release Inventory program to examine trends in toxic chemical releases and risk reduction at some 10,000 industrial facilities nationwide and the reasons for variation among firms, communities, and states. This research was funded by the National Science Foundation and was the focus of the book, Coming Clean, co-authored with Mark Stephan and Troy Abel. The book won the 2012 Lynton K. Caldwell Award from the American Political Science Association for the best book on environmental politics of the previous three years.

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ISBN 13	9781544374611
ISBN 10	1544374615
Title	Public Policy
Author	Michael E Kraft
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	SAGE Publications Inc
Year published	2020-01-28
Number of pages	544
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