Amazon.com description: Product Description: The study of public policy has a long history. It is rooted in the study of politics and of public administration as having developed from the former into a discipline of its own. This collection focuses on the scholarly analysis of public policy, drawing on the various originating threads. It includes work that is prescriptive in character in that it contributes to a deeper understanding of the policy process in the public sector. The collection is mindful of the way in which new ways of cutting up the subject have emerged, including studies with a focus on how policy and studies concerned with public management.