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Crypts of Public Policy Education

Crypts of Public Policy Education

Arts depend on personal talents that describe characters of people. However, talent is not an adequate notion. Public policy as an academic field is one of these arts, which requires some administrative skills and strategic thinking abilities.

Government systems depend on managing societies and public authorities. People who live in a community should have equal rights and opportunities. However, equal distribution of rights begins at the public level such as hospitals, schools, roads, transportation, etc. Composing skills and knowledge has vital significance to handle and distribute well administrative services. Public policy education provides strategic, innovative, and analytic thinking abilities (George Mason University, 2014). Thus, alumnus can get great jobs where they use their talents and knowledge in an appropriate way, and distribute opportunities, which every single person deserves.

Sciences put forward data by research, and researching requires knowledge of where to find correct sources. This paper gives some of the main sources of public policy education. Libraries and library staff assist researchers to find the sources well. Helen McManus, who is the liaison of School of Policy, Government and International Affairs at GMU, contributed finding the works. The works given below could be helpful to get a viewpoint on getting sources.

 

Main Works in Public Policy Education

  1. Key references, handbooks, or encyclopedias
  2. The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy (Moran, Rein, & Goodin, 2006)
  3. Handbook of Administrative Ethics (Cooper, 2001)
  4. The Oxford Guide to the United States Government (Patrick, Pious, & Ritchie, 1993)
  5. Public Opinion and Polling Around the World: A Historical Encyclopedia (Geer, 2004)
  6. Public Policy: An Introduction to Theory and Practice of Policy Analysis (Parsons, 1995)
  7. The Handbook of Political Sociology: States, Civil Societies, and Globalization (Janoski, 2005)
  8. Encyclopedia of Public Affairs Information Source (Zink, 1988)
  9. Handbook of Comparative & Development Public Administration (Farazmand, 1991)
  10. Handbook of Research Methods in Public Administration (Miller & Whicker, 1999)
  11. Encyclopedia of Policy Studies (Nagel, 1994)
  12. Informing the People: A Public Affairs Handbook (Helm, 1981)

The books have the main information of Public Policy. GMU library website was used to find them. They are given as the most famous book sources.

  1. Major Journals
  2. American Political Science Review (University of North Texas, 1906)
  3. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, 1981)
  4. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory J-PART (Transaction Periodicals Consortium, University of Kansas. Department of Public Administration, 1991)
  5. Policy Studies Journal (Policy Studies Organisation, American Political Science Association, Public Policy Section, 1972)
  6. Public Administration Review (American Society for Public Administration, 1940)
  7. Journal of Public Policy (Cambridge University Press, 1981)
  8. Journal of Public Affairs Education (National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration, 1998-2012)
  9. Administrative Science Quarterly (Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, 1956)
  10. Administrative Theory & Praxis (M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1993)
  11. Journal of Public Policy & Marketing (American Marketing Association, 1983)
  12. Policy Sciences (Springer, 1970)
  13. Publius (Oxford University Press, 1971)
  14. Yale Law & Policy Review (Yale Law & Policy Review, Inc., 1982)

The most effective public policy associations publish most of journals. When finding the journals, citation proportions were concerned.

 

 

  1. Influential books or “foundational” works
  2. Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It (Wilson, Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It, 1989)
  3. Courts and Public Policy (Smith, 1993)
  4. The Rational Public: Fifty Years of Trends in Americans’ Policy Preferences (Page & Shapiro, 1992)
  5. American Politics: The Promise of Disharmony (Huntington, 1981)
  6. Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies (Kingdon & Thurber, 2011)
  7. The Logic of Congressional Action (Arnold, 1990)
  8. Public Policy: Politics, Analysis and Alternatives (Kraft & Furlong, 2013)
  9. Beyond Machiavelli: Policy Analysis Comes of Age (Radin, 2000)
  1. A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path to More Effective Problem Solving (Bardach, 2005)
  2. Politics, Position, and Power: The Dynamics of Federal Organization (Seidman, 1980)
  3. Policy (Colebatch, 2009)
  4. The not-so-special interests: interest groups, public representation, and American governance (Grossman, 2012)
  1. Rural Democracy (Kelly, 1996)
  2. Understanding Public Policy (Dye, 2012)
  3. Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition (Okrent, 2010)
  4. The Implementation of Social Policy in Prison (Baumgartner & Jones, 1993)
  5. Soldiers to Citizens: The G.I. Bill and the Making of the Greatest Generation (Mettler, 2005)
  6. Reversals of Fortune: Public Policy and Private Interest (Mucciaroni, 1995)
  7. Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making (Stone, 2002)
  8. Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It (Wilson, 1989)

Public Policy classes’ syllabi are good sources to find the influential books. Professors give reading lists to increase comprehensive thinking on policy topics. The syllabi of most famous universities were used in this paper.

  1. Professional Associations and Organizations
  2. Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management – appam.org (George Mason University)
  3. Policy Studies Organisation, American Political Science Association – ipsonet.org (George Mason University)
  4. American Society for Public Administration – aspanet.org (George Mason University)
  5. National Academy of Public Administration – napawash.org (George Mason University)
  6. American Enterprise Institute – aei.org (George Mason University)
  7. The Aspen Institute – aspeninstitute.org (George Mason University)
  8. Brookings Institution – brookings.edu (George Mason University)
  9. Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration – naspaa.org (NASPAA)
  10. The Cato Institute – cato.org (George Mason University)
  11. Center for American Progress – americanprogress.org (George Mason University)

The most effective public administration and policy organizations publish well-known journals. The associations were reached by looking at the publishers of famous journals.

Brookings Institute is one of the most popular and effective think tanks. As a graduate student in Public Policy, I would like to present my studies to Brookings in future.

 

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Bardach, E. (2005). A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path to More Effective Problem Solving. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press.

Baumgartner, F., & Jones, B. (1993). The Implementation of Social Policy in Prison. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Colebatch, H. K. (2009). Policy. Maidenhead: Open University Press.

Cooper, T. (2001). Handbook of Administrative Ethics. New York: In Public Admisitration and Public Policy.

Dye, T. R. (2012). Understanding Public Policy. Pearson.

Farazmand, A. (1991). Handbook of Comparative & Development Public Administration. New York: M. Dekker.

Geer, J. G. (2004). Public Opinion and Polling Around the World: A Historical Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO.

George Mason University. (2014). GMU University Catalog. Retrieved from http://catalog.gmu.edu/content.php?catoid=22&navoid=4543

George Mason University. (n.d.). InfoGuides. Retrieved November 2014, from Policy, Government & International Affairs: Policy Analysis: http://infoguides.gmu.edu/politics/analysis

Grossman, M. (2012). The not-so-special interests: interest groups, public representation, and American governance. Stanford University Press.

Helm, L. M. (1981). Informing the People: A Public Affairs Handbook. New York: Longman.

Huntington, S. P. (1981). American Politics: The Promise of Disharmony. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press.

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Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University. (1956). Administrative Science Quarterly . Sage Publications, Inc.

Kelly, J. M. (1996). Rural Democracy. South Carolina Executive Institute Case Program.

Kingdon, J. W., & Thurber, J. A. (2011). Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies . Boston: Longman.

Kraft, M. E., & Furlong, S. R. (2013). Public Policy: Politics, Analysis and Alternatives. Los Angeles: SAGE Publications.

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Miller, G., & Whicker, M. L. (1999). Handbook of Research Methods in Public Administration. New York: M. Dekker.

Moran, M., Rein, M., & Goodin, R. (2006). The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press.

Mucciaroni, G. (1995). Reversals of Fortune: Public Policy and Private Interest. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.

Nagel, S. S. (1994). Encyclopedia of Policy Studies. New York: M. Dekker.

NASPAA. (n.d.). Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration. Retrieved November 2014, from http://www.naspaa.org

National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration. (1998-2012). Journal of Public Affairs Education . National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration.

Okrent, D. (2010). Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition. New York, N.Y.: Scribner.

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Page, B. I., & Shapiro, R. Y. (1992). The Rational Public: Fifty Years of Trends in Americans’ Policy Preferences. Chicago: University of Chicago Press .

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Patrick, J., Pious, R., & Ritchie, D. (1993). The Oxford Guide to the United States Government. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press.

Policy Studies Organisation, American Political Science Association, Public Policy Section. (1972). Policy Studies Journal .

Press, C. U. (1981). Journal of Public Policy .

Radin, B. (2000). Beyond Machiavelli: Policy Analysis Comes of Age . Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press.

Seidman, H. (1980). Politics, Position, and Power: The Dynamics of Federal Organization. New York: Oxford University Press.

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