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Overview
Edited by one of America's most respected political and economic thinkers, and containing essays by an impressive roster of experts, including Reich himself, this book offers a controversial, timely, and incisive analysis of the impact of the public interest on governmental policy making.Synopsis
Edited by one of America's most respected political and economic thinkers, and containing essays by an impressive roster of experts, including Reich himself, this book offers a controversial, timely, and incisive analysis of the impact of the public interest on governmental policy making.
Dennis Hale - American Political Science Review
The Power of Public Ideas displays a rare combination of virtues, building an innovative approach to public policy on a foundation of old-fashioned common sense. It is, as a result, an extremely useful book. It identifies what is important and what is trivial, what is true and what is silly, what we know already and what we need to know about the sources of public policy...A rich collection...It clears away a lot of deadwood and turns the discussion of public policy toward the things that really matter and the ideas that are worthy of public and professional deliberation.
Editorials
American Political Science Review
The Power of Public Ideas displays a rare combination of virtues, building an innovative approach to public policy on a foundation of old-fashioned common sense. It is, as a result, an extremely useful book. It identifies what is important and what is trivial, what is true and what is silly, what we know already and what we need to know about the sources of public policy...A rich collection...It clears away a lot of deadwood and turns the discussion of public policy toward the things that really matter and the ideas that are worthy of public and professional deliberation.
— Dennis Hale
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
Consists of uniformly well-written chapters by authors animated by a common purpose who build upon each other's contributions...This is easily one of the best [books] of its kind to be published in the last decade or so.
— John J. Dilulio, Jr.