News Archive
2008
Public Policy: An Evolutionary Approach
Congratulations
to Dr. David Hedge who is a co-author of the newly published, Public
Policy: An Evolutionary Approach.
Public Policy: An Evolutionary Approach, examines how the substance and process of public policy and our understanding of that have evolved in America. After providing the reader with an analytic, historic and contextual framework for viewing public policy in the U.S., the authors offer a comprehensive look at the various elements of the governing process including agenda setting and problem definition, policy formation, implementation, program evaluation, and policy change and termination. In doing that, the authors pay particular attention to the range of theories that have been offered to explain how, why, and with what effects governments act. The authors then look at three critical policy areas - environment, education, and welfare - to further illustrate how governing proceeds in the U.S. Throughout the text the authors draw extensively on actual policy examples including recent efforts to reform education and welfare and the war in Iraq.
2007
Dr. Zach Selden To Become Deputy Secretary General for Policy
Dr. Zach Selden has been appointed Deputy Secretary General for Policy at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Brussels, Belgium.
The NATO PA is composed of the members of national legislatures from the NATO member countries who work on security issues. His job will be to advise the President of the Assembly on policy issues as well as manage US relations with partner countries suchas Russia and the Ukraine.
