Making public policy: studies in American politics.

Includes index.

Making Public Policy has been developed as a supplementary reader for introductory courses on American government and politics. It is a source of documentary materials presented in a topical format, and it contains court decisions and related legal material, such as the arguments of counsel; an initiative petition and samples of the debate that surrounded it; a description of a day in the life of a President of the United States; statements from the Federal Reserve Board about what it is trying to do; and materials from committee hearings and from debates on the floor of Congress. The collection thus examines some of the specific tools of the American process of government while suggesting their relationships to actual policy making. This approach has been taken in order to minimize description and analysis in favor of actual source materials.