Public Policy: Politics, Analysis, and Alternatives 3rd edition by Kraft, Michael E., Furlong, Scott R. (2009) Paperback

I recommended this book to a friend who works in transportation planning and has to assist decisionmakers (her boss) in evaluating policy decisions. Making policy decisions is more than a gut feeling. This book provides you tools to approach problems, find alternatives, analyze the alternatives, and decide between them. Really helps you articulate the differences between alternatives. It is hard to imagine a decision that these tools wouldn't be helpful to evaluate.Many people need to show accountability for the choices they make, and this book explains how to do that as a part of a repeatable process.

Great book to those who are in Public Administration field. I compared it to many other books I have read in the same field and found this one to be an excellent book; I even value it better than my other book: Dye's "Understanding Public Administration".I would recommend this one than others.

If you like politics or are interested just a little bit, the readings in here are up to date and quick to read. It helps give a good understanding of how and why policies are made. It also helps define a lot of the political jargon you hear a lot. =)

I recommend this book to all people like me that made graduate studies in another field (Political Science) as a reading to get introduced in public policy.

I like the information in this book so far, and I find it to be very relevant for modern times, and it is a recent book anyways.

This book contains lots of real-world examples that are fairly contemporary to help you understand policy and policy analysis. The writing style is easy to read.

Great supplement to public policy courseUses modern policy applicable examplesPages do rip easily and if highlighting or underlining- pages are thin and bleed through

I used this book in college so it has been a while, I remeber it being quite helpful to me.