The Dictionary of Public Policy and Administration offers definitions of all the terms, concepts, processes and practices of contemporary public policy and administration. Included are brief biographies of major scholars and influential practitioners, summaries of major rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court, overviews of significant laws, descriptions of important government agencies, explanations of historical trends and governing doctrines, definitions of slang and informal processes, and assessments of leading scholarly and professional journals. With over 2,000 entries, this book seeks to capture and codify the living language of public affairs. Included are terms found in today's newspapers and public debate that have not yet found their way into the professional literature. The dictionary is continuously alphabetized making it easy to compare entries that sound similar. This allows for the quick comparison of terms with the same root. For example, the entry for tax is followed by dozens of variants of tax such as tax avoidance and tax base .The Dictionary is designed to be the single most useful tool that a student or practitioner of public administration could have -- the book t