This book was written for the undergraduate course in business, government, and can also be used for graduate-level courses in business and public policy.It includes an integrating model of business performance and another model for social change and control of business that complement one another.
This book has been a long time in its writing, but fortunately as the decade has rolled on we have found that the simplistic private-good, public-bad propositions that heard in 1990 have been largerly discredited. The reader will find that s/he has a vast interdisiplinary range of concepts and analytical frame-works to explore.
This is a book about the way public policies are made and un-made. it seeks to explain how individual decisions and programs are shaped by the larger patterns of political life. The book does this by suggesting that policies emerge as the regular creations of policy systems.