InPublic Policy: Politics, Analysis, and Alternatives, students come to understand how and why policy analysis is used to assess policy alternatives. To encourage critical and creative thinking on issues ranging from the federal deficit to health care reform to climate change, authorsMichael KraftandScott Furlongintroduce and fully integrate an evaluative approach to policy. TheSixth EditionofPublic Policyoffers a fully revised, concise review of institutions, policy actors, and major theoretical models as well as a discussion of the nature of policy analysis and its practice. Both the exposition and data have been updated to reflect major policy controversies and developments through the end of 2016, including new priorities of the Donald Trump administration.

在《公共政策。在《公共政策：政治、分析和替代方案》中，学生将了解政策分析是如何以及为什么被用来评估政策替代方案的。为了鼓励学生对从联邦赤字到医疗改革再到气候变化等问题进行批判性和创造性的思考，作者迈克尔-克拉夫特和斯科特-弗朗特介绍并全面整合了政策的评估方法。第六版《公共政策》对机构、政策参与者和主要理论模型进行了全面修订和简明回顾，并对政策分析的性质及其实践进行了讨论。论述和数据都已更新，以反映截至2016年底的主要政策争议和发展，包括唐纳德-特朗普政府的新优先事项。