PUBLIC POLICY: AN EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH, 3e, examines how the substance and process of public policy and our understanding of that have evolved in America. After providing the reader with an analytic, historic and contextual framework for viewing public policy in the U.S., the authors offer a comprehensive look at the various elements of the governing process including agenda setting and problem definition, policy formation, implementation, program evaluation, and policy change and termination. In doing that the authors pay particular attention to the range of theories that have been offered to explain how, why, and with what effects governments act. The authors then look at three critical policy areas - environment, education, and welfare - to further illustrate how governing proceeds in the U.S.. Throughout the text the authors draw extensively on actual policy examples including recent efforts to reform education and welfare and the war in Iraq.
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"The feedback I get from students has always been very positive for this text. It is an approach that public administration students and professionals are often very comfortable with."
"The Lester and Stewart text provides an excellent overview of the policy process giving public administrators a balanced and detailed perspective of their special roles and responsibilities."
"Three strengths of the text: Excellent overview of the policy process, including a good discussion of policy learning and change; very good examples of several policy domains, and an excellent introduction to policy science."
"The Lester and Stewart text provides an excellent overview of the policy process giving public administrators a balanced and detailed perspective of their special roles and responsibilities."
"Three strengths of the text: Excellent overview of the policy process, including a good discussion of policy learning and change; very good examples of several policy domains, and an excellent introduction to policy science."
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Joseph Stewart, Jr. has held teaching or research positions at the University of New Mexico, University of Texas at Dallas, West Virginia University, University of New Orleans, Rice University, and Wichita State University. His research interest spans civil rights policies; racial and ethnic politics; public policy; and educational policy. His work has appeared in a variety of political science, education, public policy, public administration, public law, and interdisciplinary journals. Three of his books — RACE, CLASS, AND EDUCATION (with Ken Meier and Robert England, 1989), THE POLITICS OF HISPANIC EDUCATION (with Ken Meier, 1991), and CAN WE ALL GET ALONG? RACIAL AND ETHNIC MINORITIES IN AMERICAN POLITICS (with Paula McClain, 4th ed., 2006) — have received Myers Awards as "Outstanding Books on the Subject of Human Rights in the United States". Stewart serves on the editorial board of the University Press of Virginia's "Race, Ethnicity and Politics" series and is co-editor of Rowman & Littlefield's "Spectrum" series. Stewart was president of the Southwestern Political Science Association and Southwestern Social Science Association, and currently is vice-president elect of the Southern Political Science Association.
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Good textbook on public policy,
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I have used this as a textbook in some graduate courses that (I have taught on public policy and policy analysis). It has been received well by students; in addition, outside of a few quirks, I also think highly of this volume as a textbook.
What is public policy? The authors note that it is government action aimed to remedy some public problem (whether real or imagined). The book is structured simply. The first part provides background, including chapters on the nature of public policy, the evolution of public policy and policy studies, approaches to policy analysis, and various models of policy. This segment of the book mainly provides context for what follows. Part two focuses on the so-called stages of the policy process--agenda setting (what gets defined as a problem; does the problem receive enough attention to begin to get discussed in government circles); policy formulation (once an issue gets on the agenda, what goes into development of a policy proposal?); policy implementation (once a law is passed or some other decision made, how does it get put into action); policy evaluation (does the policy answer the problem? What effects does the policy decision have?); [policy change and termination (what is the nature of policy change? Why and how do some policies get terminated?). There are some quirks here. Under policy change, there are some models that are simply unsatisfying (e.g., zigzag models). Part 3 looks at specific policy areas--from education to welfare to crime to the environment. My reading is that the authors play it pretty straight. Under welfare policy, they note both liberal and conservative critiques (in fact, I wish they went beyond this simple two-dimensional analysis). The final part of the book looks at how policy knowledge does (or does not) get used in decision making. There is also a final examination of the evolution of policy studies over time. All in all, a pretty good introduction to the policy process.
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Public Policy: An Evolutionary Approach provides straight-forward history on the evolution of undesrtanding of public policies to the evolution of approaches and models. I do not detect any bias in the material in the first two segments of the book. I did not spend sufficient time with part three describing the analytical approaches outlined to the case studies to weigh any idealogical bias. Nonetheless, for any policy analyist, this is an important academic book for political science and public policy. Any person involved in seeking to influence policy, engaged in policymaking, or implementation of policy, this book, in my judgment, is a required reading.
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