Controversies in American Public Policy

Book Description
This anthology is structured around a set of substantive debates over a broad range of important contemporary public policy questions. Each chapter poses a provocative contemporary public policy question, and each opens with an overview of the public policy issue in question, including its history and political-economic context. Major articles are used as opposing pairs to debate the policy question posed in each chapter and to help students form an educated opinion of the topic discussed by actively engaging them in a modern public policy debate.

About the Author
John A. Hird is Director of the Center for Public Policy and Administration at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He received his Ph.D. in Public Policy from the University of California at Berkeley, and has served as Research Fellow at The Brookings Institution and Economist with the President's Council of Economic Advisers. He is the author of SUPERFUND: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL RISK (1994), and has published articles in many professional journals such as "American Political Science Review," "Journal of Policy Analysis And Management," "Yale Journal On Regulation," and "Social Science Quarterly." He serves on the editorial board of the "Journal of Policy Analysis and Management," and has consulted on issues ranging from regulatory reform to state agency research. He is the first recipient of the Mills Award from the Policy Studies Organization for an outstanding contributor to policy studies under age thirty-five, and is currently writing a book on the use of public policy expertise in democratic institutions.


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Recent articles on public policy are collected here in sections on specific issues such as growth management, education, gun control, welfare reform, and affirmative action. Each chapter contains an introductory section designed to familiarize readers with the history and context of the issue, and ends with discussion questions and Web links. Hird directs the Center for Public Policy and Administration at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


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