Public administration and policy analysis education have long
emphasized tidiness, stages, and rationality, but practitioners
frequently must deal with a world where objectivity is buffeted by,
repressed by, and sometimes defeated by value conflict. Politics
and policy are "messy" and power explains much more about the
policy process than does rationality. Public Policy Praxis, now in
a thoroughly revised fourth edition, uniquely equips students to
better grapple with ambiguity and complexity. By emphasizing mixed
methodologies, the reader is encouraged, through the use of a wide
variety of policy cases, to develop a workable and practical model
of applied policy analysis. Students are given the opportunity to
try out these globally applicable analytical models and tools in
varied case settings (e.g., county, city, federal, international,
plus urban and rural) while facing wide-ranging topics (starving
farmers and the red panda in Nepal, e-cigarettes, GMOs, the gig
economy, and opioid abuse) that capture the diversity and reality
of public policy analysis and the intergovernmental and complex
nature of politics. The fourth edition expands upon its thorough
exploration of specific tools of policy analysis, such as
stakeholder mapping, content analysis, group facilitation,
narrative analysis, cost-benefit analysis, futuring, and survey
analysis. Along with teaching "how to," the authors discuss the
limitations, the practical political problems, and the ethical
problems associated with different techniques and methodologies.
Many new cases have been added, along with clear instructions on
how to do congressional research and a Google Trends analysis. An
expanded online Teaching Appendix is included for adopters,
offering original cases, answers to problems, alternative
approaches to case use, teaching exercises, student assignments,
pedagogical ideas, and supplemental material directly tied to
concepts covered in the text. With an easily accessible and
conversational writing style, Public Policy Praxis is an ideal
textbook for undergraduate and graduate courses in public policy
analysis, community planning, leadership, social welfare policy,
educational policy, family policy, and special seminars.
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