Professional Developments in Policy Studies

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This is an overview of what is happening at the cutting edge of professional public policy analysis. The survey assesses the many and varied aspects of the policy studies discipline. Stuart Nagel has provided an analysis of the profession that will be useful to practitioners and academics, as well as students and teachers, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. The work begins by suggesting ways for professionals to become more effective and interdisciplinary in their approaches to dealing with public policy. The author analyzes cross-cutting governmental activities and different theoretical perspectives. He points to means for achieving policy goals, for selecting among alternative policies, and to the organizations and institutions that are concerned with public policy. A bibliography notes the most important recent publications dealing with professional developments in the field.

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Nagel and Mills have made a contribution to what is an important interdisciplinary undertaking in today's society. This work will prove useful to a variety of audiences.-Perspectives on Political Science
"Nagel and Mills have made a contribution to what is an important interdisciplinary undertaking in today's society. This work will prove useful to a variety of audiences."-Perspectives on Political Science

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STUART S. NAGEL, a Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois, is Secretary-Treasurer and Publications Coordinator of the Policy Studies Organization. MIRIAM K. MILLS is Professor of Organizational Science at The School of Industrial Management of the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Previously, she was the Director of Manpower and Labor Relations of Jersey City Medical Center, New Jersey. A frequent contributor to various journals, she has coauthored Evaluation Analysis with Microcomputers and coedited Biomedical Technology and Public Policy. Dr. Mills is also an arbitrator-mediator with the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and other labor panels.