Abstract: The Public and its Policies – The Historical Roots of the Field – Emergence of Schools of Public Policy: Reflections by a Founding Dean – Training for Policy Makers – Policy Analysis as Puzzle Solving – Policy Analysis as Critical Listening – Policy Analysis as Policy Advice – Policy Analysis for Democracy – Policy Analysis as Critique – The Origins of Policy – Agenda Setting – Ordering through Discourse – Arguing, Bargaining, and Getting Agreement – Policy Impact – The Politics of Policy Evaluation – Policy Dynamics – Learning in Public Policy – Reframing Problematic Policies – Policy in Practice – Policy Network Analysis – Smart Policy? – The Tools of Government in the Information Age – Policy Analysis as Organizational Analysis – Public-Private Collaboration – Economic Constraints on Public Policy – Political Feasibility: Interests and Power – Institutional Constraints on Policy – Social and Cultural Factors: Constraining and Enabling – Globalization and Public Policy – Distributive and Redistributive Policy – Market and Non-Market Failures – Privatization and Regulatory Regimes – Democratizing the Policy Process – The Logic of Appropriateness – Ethical Dimensions of Public Policy – Economic Techniques – Economism and its Limits – Policy Modeling – Social Experimentation for Public Policy – The Unique Methodology of Policy Research – Choosing Governance Systems: A Plea for Comparative Research – The Politics of Retrenchment: The US Case – Reflections on How Political Scientists (and Others) Might Think about Energy and Policy – Reflections on Policy Analysis: Putting it Together Again

Keywords: agenda setting, democracy, globalization, governance, government, market, methodology, politics, power, regime, public policy