SYNOPSIS

This readable and practical introduction to the public process is intended for students in either traditional academic or professional programs at the undergraduate or graduate level. The author's direct writing style and extensive use of examples will also appeal to practitioners. The book offers an extensive overview of the best current thinking on the policy process, with an emphasis on accessibility and synthesis rather than novelty or abstraction. Among the many useful features that make the book serve equally well as a ready reference are an extensive glossary of terms, keyed to the chapters in which each term is most thoroughly discussed; an annotated bibliography; and an introduction to Web-based research, with a guide to the most important and reliable public policy research sites. A book that can be read on many levels, this is one text that students and instructors will want to keep long after the course is over.

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