Following in the bestselling tradition the author established with other "Classics" readers such as "Public Administration", "Organizational Theory", "International Relations", and "American Government", he offers an edited collection of his work in the interdisciplinary field of public policy.

Note: "Review Questions" conclude each chapter.Preface. 1. The Context of Public Policy. Jeremy Bentham, Of the Principle of Utility (1780). David Easton, The Political System Under Stress (1965). Thomas S. Kuhn, The Nature and Necessity of Scientific Revolutions (1970). 2. Decision Making in Support of Policy Making. Charles E. Lindblom, The Science of "Muddling Through" (1959). Amital Etzioni, Mixed Scanning: "Third" Approach to Decision Making (1967). Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucrats as Policy Makers (1980). Deborah Stone, Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making, (1997). 3. Interest Groups and Public Policy. James Madison, The Federalist No. 10 (1787). David Truman, The Governmental Process (1951). C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite (1957). Robert A. Dahl, Who Governs? (1961). Theodore J. Lowi, American Business, Public Policy, Case-Studies, and Political Theory (1963-1964). 4. Agenda Setting for Policy Making. Roger W. Cobb and Charles D. Elder, The Dynamics of Agenda-Building (1972). Anthony Downs, Up and Down with Ecology-The Issue-Attention Cycle (1972). John W. Kingdon, Agendas, Alternatives and Public Policies (1995). 5. The Political Economy of Public Policy. Charles A. Beard, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution (1913). F. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (1944). John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society (1958). Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom (1962). Lester Thurow, The Zero-Sum Society (1980). 6. Policy Making by Legislatures. Edmund Burke, Speech to the Electors of Bristol (1774). Woodrow Wilson, Congressional Government (1885). Glenn R. Parker and Roger H. Davidson, Popular Congressmen and Unpopular Congress (1979). 7. Policy Implementation by the Executive. Louis Brownlow, Charles E. Merriam and Luther Gulick, Report of the President's Committee on Administrative Management (1937). Richard E. Neustadt, Presidential Power: The Power to Persuade (1959). Aaron Wildavsky, The Two Presidencies (1966). Graham T. Allison, Conceptual Models and the Cuban Missile Crisis (1969). 8. Policy Reviewing by the Judiciary. Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist No. 78 (1778). Marbury v. Madison (1803).Brown v. Board of Education (1954). Griswold v. Connecticut (1965). Miranda v. Arizona (1966). Roe v. Wade (1973).9. Foreign Policy. Thucydides, Reflections on the Peloponnesian War: The Melian Debate (5th century B.C.E.). Carl von Clausewitz, On War: War as an Instrument of Policy (1832). X (George F. Kennon) The Sources of Soviet Conduct (1947). Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations (1993). 10. Public Policy as Public Relations. George Orwell, Politics and the English Language (1945). Daniel J. Boorstin, The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961). Murray Edelman,Symbols and Political Quiescence (1964). 11. Policy Analysis. Garrett Hardin, The Tragedy of the Commons (1968). Arnold J. Meltsner, The Seven Deadly Sins of Policy Analysts (1976). Aaron Wildavsky, The Art of Policy Analysis (1979).