Controversies in American Public Policy

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...
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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.