The Substance of Public Policy

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EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 9781560726494


The Substance of Public Policy deals with six basic policy fields: economic policy, technology policy, social policy: political policy, international policy and legal policy. The book includes concrete examples under each of those policy fields, including unemployment and inflation, environmental protection, race relations, voter turnout, the US and the UN and drug-related crime. Any kind of policy analysis or decision making that is systematic should have some goals to be achieved, some alternatives available for achieving those goals and an attempt to draw a conclusion as to which alternative best achieves the goals. The kind of win-win conclusion under consideration is a conclusion that will represent a victory for both the conservative side and the liberal side, or whichever the opposing viewpoints are. Feasibility problems with regard to implementation are described. Feasibility problems can arise from administration politics, psychology, economics, technology or other kinds of obstacles.