More and more policy issues involve issues that are explicitly values-based, yet public policy analysis tends to skirt around the question of values. Public Policy Values overcomes this reluctance by showing how public policies enable values-choices to be made, often without seeming to do so.

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JENNY STEWART is Professor of Public Policy in the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia. She researches, teaches and writes in the fields of policy analysis, management and public sector reform and worked as a policy analyst in the Australian Public Service before joining the staff of the University of Canberra in 1993.

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Introduction What are Policy Values? Value Conflict and Policy Change Implementing Fairness The Impact of Efficiency Values and Policy Instruments Where Policy Meets the Personal Values and Public Management Green-ness and Growth Universality and Choice in Health and Education Conclusion