Description: "The authors offer an excellent approach to the study of the public policy-making process in the US using an applied problem-solving model....Goes beyond previous work to provice many helpful models for organizing a wide variety of approaches to the subject, including public choice, welfare economics, corporatism, pluralism, neoinstitutionalism, and statism."--Choice"...One of the most useful works to appear recently in the field of public policy...Provides a sophisticated guide to contemporary scholarship and conceptualization on diverse aspects of the policymaking endeavor...[The authors] succeed admirably in portraying the complexity and contingent nature of the process, as well as the rich inhtellectual tradition that is giving birth to policy science as its own unique discipline."--American political Science Review

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