Public Policy: A Concise Introduction

About Denise L. ScheberleMichelle C. PautzSara R. Rinfret

Dr. Sara R. Rinfret is currently a Professor of Public Administration and Associate Vice Provost of Faculty Affairs at Northern Arizona University. She has more than a decade of higher education administrative experience and is a nationally recognized scholar in regulatory policy environmental policy and public administration. She previously served as the Acting Dean for the Alexander Blewett School of Law Chair of the Department of Public Administration and Policy and the Director of Master of Public Administration at the University of Montana. To date she has published 8 books and more than 40 peer reviewed articles and several book chapters. She is the recipient of the Fulbright Specialist Program in public administration and studied with scholars at the University of Aarhus (Denmark 2016). She holds an MPA from the John Glenn College of Public Affairs (Ohio State) and PhD in political science from Northern Arizona University.  Denise Scheberle is a clinical teaching professor for the School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado Denver. She is Professor Emerita from the University of WisconsinGreen Baywhere she served as the Herbert Fisk Johnson Professor in Environmental Studies and professor and chair of the Department of Public and Environmental Affairs. She is the recipient of national state and campus teaching awards including the American Political Science Associations (APSA) Distinguished Teaching Award and University of Wisconsin Regents Teaching Excellence Award. She is the author of Industrial Disastersand Environmental Policy: Stories of Villains Heroes and the Rest of Us and Federalism and Environmental Policy: Trust and the Politics of Administration as well as numerous articles. Her research focuses on environmental policy public service and intergovernmental relations. She holds a PhD in political science from Colorado State University and an MPA from the University of Wyoming. Michelle C. Pautz is professor of political science and assistant provost of the Common Academic Program at the University of Dayton. Her research has appeared in Administration & Society Administrative Theory & Praxis Journal of Political Science Education Journal of Environmental Studies & Sciences Journal of Public Affairs Education Policy Studies Journal PS: Political Science & Politics Public Voices and the Review of Policy Research among others. She is the author of Civil Servants on the Silver Screen: Hollywoods Depiction of Government and Bureaucrats; coauthor of The Lilliputians of Environmental Regulation: The Perspective of State Regulators and U.S. Environmental Policy in Action: Practice & Implementation (now in its second edition) both with Sara Rinfret; and coeditor of Administering the U.S. Food System:  Revisiting Food Policy and Politics. She is the recipient of the University of Daytons Alumni Award for Faculty Teaching in 2016. She holds a PhD in public administration and an MPA from Virginia Tech. She earned a BA in economics political science and public administration from Elon University.