The so-called "charitable choice" policy of the Clinton and Bush administrations is another milestone in the transformation of a social services sector that was once decentralized, independent, often informal, and voluntary into a deliberate instrument of public policy. Issues associated with...

Following a review of the American Experience with administrative reform in the federal government, concentrating on reforms since the 1960s, the American approach to public administration is compared to that of France. The two nations appear to have quite dissimilar administrative cultures if...

Policy analysis was conceived in controversy. Beginning in the 1960s, critics such as Lawrence Tribe, Edward Banfield, Charles Lindblom, Richard Nelson, and Martin Rein have attacked the way policy analysis skills are conceived, taught, and applied in practice. Within the field, policy analysts...

Initiated by interest groups representing the interest of a class of agency clients, structural reform litigation shapes the administration of important policy domains, particularly in the social services. Employing a spatial bargaining model we show that, instead of holding the agency to its...

Laws such as .08 blood alcohol content, open container, and license revocation provide a policy framework for reducing drinking and driving. Drinking and driving behavior is difficult to assess; unlike property and violent crimes, where incidence statistics can approximate behavior, most...

"This book addresses one of the enduring questions of democratic government: why do governments choose some public policies but not others? Political executives focus on a range of policy issues, such as the economy, social policy, and foreign policy, but they shift their priorities over time....