Provides examples of topical policy issues including homeland security, emergency management, No Child Left Behind, organization of the Defense Department, and efforts to create a Department of Food Safety

Illustrates the need to look at management in issues within a framework that includes the Congress, the White House, the Executive Branch, and interest groups

The only text of its kind to illustrate the interrelationship between management and policy

Contains literature that is out of print and otherwise not easy to find