Kraft, Michael E. <br/><br/>
Public policy :  politics, analysis, and alternatives / 
Michael E. Kraft and Scott R. Furlong 
 - Los Angeles, California :  Sage,  c2015 
 - xxviii, 535 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Public policy and politics -- Government institutions and policy actors -- Understanding public policymaking -- Policy analysis: an introduction -- Public problems and policy alternatives -- Assessing policy alternatives -- Economic and budgetary policy -- Health care policy -- Welfare and social security policy -- Education policy -- Environmental and energy policy -- Foreign policy and homeland security -- Politics, analysis, and policy choice 
<br/><br/> Encouraging students to understand how and why policy analysis is used to assess policy alternatives, this book takes a fully integrated and evaluative approach to American policy, arming students with all the analytic tools they will need. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781483345789 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>POLICY SCIENCES -- EVALUATION
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>H 97 .K73 2015