Public Policy: A Concise Introduction, Second Edition
by Sara R. Rinfret, Denise Scheberle and Michelle C. Pautz, is a student-friendly textbook that connects responsible citizens to the world through a contemporary examination of the fundamentals of American public policy. The authors help both majors and non-majors foster their analytical skills early and then spend the rest of the semester discussing the policy issues, data, and events that matter most to them.The
Second Edition
has been updated to include how we can collectively use public policy to raiseindividuals from the margins and address inequities that exist in our system. Recent policy questionsinclude: "How do we shape our country's health care system? ", "How do we address increases in costs oftuition? ", and "Did the COVID-19 pandemic positively or negatively shape our public education system? "