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Public Policy Praxis : A Case Approach for Understanding Policy and Analysis by Mark K. McBeth and Randy S. Clemons (2016, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherRoutledge
ISBN-101138641669
ISBN-139781138641662
eBay Product ID (ePID)219895825
Product Key Features
Number of Pages332 Pages
Publication NamePublic Policy Praxis : a Case Approach for Understanding Policy and Analysis
LanguageEnglish
SubjectPublic Policy / General, Public Affairs & Administration, General
Publication Year2016
TypeTextbook
AuthorMark K. Mcbeth, Randy S. Clemons
Subject AreaPolitical Science
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight21.7 Oz
Item Length10 in
Item Width7 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number3
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2015-050274
Reviews"This new edition is much improved in all important aspects, particularly in how the chapters have been organized to highlight the mixed methods approach to policy analysis. The authors' post-positivist perspective reflects current thinking within the discipline, and meshes perfectly with their case study approach. Public Policy Praxis remains accessible in tone as it challenges us to examine our most basic assumptions about the policy process."- Kenneth Kickham, University of Central Oklahoma, USA "Public Policy Praxisis a concise yet comprehensive guide to policy analysis combining the practical and theoretical in a balanced text. Both scholarly and conversational, it is a valuable resource offering a broad base of policy concepts and terminology, and providing the essential tools for meaningful policy dialogue and action on an evolving array of issues."-Bonnie Stabile, George Mason University, USA "True to its name, Public Policy Praxis epitomizes the merger between diverse theories and meaningful practice. Now on their 3rdedition, Clemons and McBeth again deliver complex ideas and methods easily understood by policy students, yet substantive enough to belong on the scholar's bookshelf. The approach is practical, case driven, theoretically diverse, and yet simultaneously rigorous, covering complex tools of the trade--both quantitative and qualitative. For a non-dogmatic, practical, and theoretically versatile policy analysis text, this is your book."- Michael Jones, Oregon State University, USA "Public Policy Praxisis one of the best books available for graduate programs in applied public policy and policy analysis. It is an extremely well written piece of scholarship that seamlessly weaves both the theoretically important concepts in the field of public policy with the applied "toolkit" approach of policy analysis. Clemons and McBeth continue to provide both the scholar and the practitioner with an invaluable resource."- Gregory C. Hill, Boise State University, USA "Public Policy Praxisis a unique, case-based, and theory-rich approach for students to understand the politics of public policy and access tools of policy analysis. With an accessible writing style, Clemons and McBeth offer a refreshing approach to public policy that brings pragmatism and praxis to the fore in unpacking the complexities of real-world policy issues."-Elizabeth A. Shanahan, Montana State University, USA, "This new edition is much improved in all important aspects, particularly in how the chapters have been organized to highlight the mixed methods approach to policy analysis. The authors' post-positivist perspective reflects current thinking within the discipline, and meshes perfectly with their case study approach. Public Policy Praxis remains accessible in tone as it challenges us to examine our most basic assumptions about the policy process."- Kenneth Kickham, University of Central Oklahoma, USA "Public Policy Praxisis a concise yet comprehensive guide to policy analysis combining the practical and theoretical in a balanced text. Both scholarly and conversational, it is a valuable resource offering a broad base of policy concepts and terminology, and providing the essential tools for meaningful policy dialogue and action on an evolving array of issues."-Bonnie Stabile, George Mason University, USA "True to its name, Public Policy Praxis epitomizes the merger between diverse theories and meaningful practice. Now on their 3rdedition, Clemmons and McBeth again deliver complex ideas and methods easily understood by policy students, yet substantive enough to belong on the scholar's bookshelf. The approach is practical, case driven, theoretically diverse, and yet simultaneously rigorous, covering complex tools of the trade--both quantitative and qualitative. For a non-dogmatic, practical, and theoretically versatile policy analysis text, this is your book."- Michael Jones, Oregon State University, USA "Public Policy Praxisis one of the best books available for graduate programs in applied public policy and policy analysis. It is an extremely well written piece of scholarship that seamlessly weaves both the theoretically important concepts in the field of public policy with the applied "toolkit" approach of policy analysis. Clemons and McBeth continue to provide both the scholar and the practitioner with an invaluable resource."- Gregory C. Hill, Boise State University, USA "Public Policy Praxisis a unique, case-based, and theory-rich approach for students to understand the politics of public policy and access tools of policy analysis. With an accessible writing style, Clemons and McBeth offer a refreshing approach to public policy that brings pragmatism and praxis to the fore in unpacking the complexities of real-world policy issues."-Elizabeth A. Shanahan, Montana State University, USA
Dewey Edition22
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal320.6
Edition DescriptionRevised edition,New Edition
Table Of ContentPart 1: Overview 1. Public Policy, Power, the People, Pluralism, and You Part 2: Theory & Practice: Rationality, Nonrationality, Politics, and the Policy Process 2. The Rational Public Policy Method 3. The Positivist Toolbox 4. Critiques of the Rational Approach 5. The Nonrational (Political) Approach Part 3: Practice and Theory: Problem Definition, Pragmatism, Policy Analysis, Methodologies and Democracy 6. A Pragmatic Public Policy Analysis Method 7. Problem Definition, Mixed Methodologies, and Praxis 8. Doing Democracy: A New (Six) Step Model Part 4: Conclusion: Praxis/Practice 9. Letting You Show Off
SynopsisPublic administration and policy analysis education has long emphasized tidiness, stages, and rationality, but practitioners frequently must deal with a world where objectivity is buffeted by, repressed by, and sometimes defeated by value conflict. Too often public administration education has failed individuals who must deal with the hustle and bustle and complexity of policymaking. Public Policy Praxis equips its readers to grapple with ambiguity and complexity. By emphasizing mixed methodologies, students are encouraged, through the use of cases, to develop a workable and practical model of applied policy analysis. Throughout the book, Clemons and McBeth argue that pragmatism demands that analysts learn to think politically and to understand that public problems are socially constructed. As such, in addition to analytical models, the authors examine specific tools of policy analysis, such as stakeholder mapping, content analysis, group facilitation, narrative analysis, cost-benefit analysis, futuring, and survey analysis. Students are given the opportunity to try out these analytical models and tools in varied case settings (county, city, federal, urban, and rural), facing wide-ranging topics (economic development, expansion of human services in an urban area, building a health care clinic in a small town, an inner-city drug program, and the bison controversy in Yellowstone National Park) that capture the diversity of public policy and the intergovernmental nature of politics. With chapters written to the student and in a nearly conversational style, Public Policy Praxis is an ideal textbook for undergraduate and graduate courses in public policy analysis, community planning, leadership, social welfare policy, educational policy, family policy, and special seminars., Public administration and policy analysis education has long emphasized tidiness, stages, and rationality, but practitioners frequently must deal with a world where objectivity is buffeted by, repressed by, and sometimes defeated by, value conflict. Too often public administration education has failed individuals who must deal with the hustle and bustle and complexity of policymaking. Public Policy Praxis equips students to grapple with ambiguity and complexity. By emphasizing mixed methodologies and through the use of cases, students are encouraged to develop a workable and practical model of applied policy analysis. Throughout the book, Clemons and McBeth argue that pragmatism demands that analysts learn to think politically and to understand that public problems are socially constructed. As such, in addition to analytical models, the authors examine specific tools of policy analysis, such as stakeholder mapping, content analysis, group facilitation, narrative analysis, cost-benefit analysis, futuring, and survey analysis. Students are given the opportunity to try out these analytical models and tools in varied case settings (county, city, federal, urban, and rural) facing wide-ranging topics (economic development, expansion of human services in an urban area, building a health care clinic in a small town, an inner-city drug program, and the bison controversy in Yellowstone National Park) that capture the diversity of public policy and the intergovernmental nature of politics. With chapters written to the student and in a nearly conversational style, Public Policy Praxis is an ideal textbook for undergraduate and graduate courses in public policy analysis, community planning, leadership, social welfare policy, educational policy, family policy, and special seminars.
LC Classification NumberH97.C56 2017
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