Should public funding be given to in vitro fertilisation? What is the ‘best’ way to deal with HIV AIDS? Should the wearing of Islamic headscarfs be banned? How should choices be made between ‘the environment’ and ‘growth’?
More and more policy issues involve questions that are explicitly values-based, yet public policy texts have little to say as to how students might approach these types of problems.
Public Policy Values fills this gap, by viewing public policies through the lens of the values-choices they embody. As such, the book emphasises the values-based dimension of all policy.
Public Policy Values, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Order here