Organized to match the table of contents of the best-selling policy textbooks and lauded by reviewers for filling a large gap in the field, this supplementary reader brings in one place the most important writings in public policy. Following in the bestselling tradition he established with other “Classics” readers (Public Administration, Organizational Theory, International Relations, and American Government), Shafritz offers an edited collection of the very best work in the interdisciplinary field of public policy.