“As a textbook, it brings together broad, multi-disciplinary literature with succinct clarity, wisdom, and trenchant examples. The combination of short essays, summaries, and examples, often set apart in text boxes, provides a contemporary framework for learning. For teachers, it provides a road map of each topic that they can use to organize their courses and individual lectures. I have read many books on public policy and policy analysis and I enjoyed and learned from this one more than any other. I know that I will be borrowing from it.”
— Douglas Besharov, University of Maryland