The responsibility for designing, planning, and managing locally important policies is shifting from federal to state and local governments. As this happens, there is a growing need for public servants and others responsible for shaping policy to be aware of how to deal with these new responsibilities and challenges.
The authors bring a wealth of knowledge and experience training state and local policy makers in understanding and using local policy models. Community Policy Analysis Modeling provides a valuable reference for future community policy modeling and analysis including a selection of key examples of modeling applications.
Community Policy Analysis Modeling is an important reference for all those working with state and local community policy development, assessment, and analysis.