This brief text identifies the issues, resources, actors, and institutions involved in public policy making and traces the dynamics of the policymaking process,

To understand public policy decisions, it is imperative to understand the capacities of the individual actors who are making them, how they think and feel about

Thoroughly revised, reorganized, updated, and expanded, this widely-used text sets the balance and fills the gap between theory and practice in public policy st

This volume proposes a new way of understanding the policymaking process in the United States by examining the complex interactions among the three branches of