The book "Public Policy as a Multidisciplinary Field" was organized by Eduardo Marques and Carlos Aurélio Pimenta de Faria, and it was released in Sao Paulo and also was launched at the 37th ANPOCS (National Association of Postgraduate Studies and Research in Social Sciences) Annual Meeting which was held in the city of Águas de Lindóia, from September 23th to 27th, 2013.

Synopsis:

Originated at the forum "A Multidisciplinary Analysis in Public Policy" held during the meeting of the Association of Political Science (ABCP) in 2010, in Recife, the work adds even later contributions. It brings a total of 10 essays, which give a brief overview of how the different fields of knowledge have addressed public policy in the country.

About the organizers

Eduardo Marques is professor livre-docente in the Department of Political Science at USP (DCP / USP) and researcher at the Center for Metropolitan Studies (CEM). Author, among other books, of Opportunities and deprivation in the urban South: Poverty, segregation and social networks in São Paulo (Farnhnam: Ashgate Publishers, 2012.).

Carlos Aurélio Pimenta de Faria holds a Ph.D. in Political Science (University Research Institute of Rio de Janeiro - Iuperj, 1997) and is the organizer, among other works, Implementing public policy: theory and practice (PUC / MG, 2012).

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Publishers links: Ed. Fiocruz / Ed. Unesp.

ISBN: 978-853-930-4011 (Ed. Unesp)