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“Public policy is a government plan of action to solve a social problem.”
“Public policy is a government plan of action intended to solve a societal problem.”
Three guesses which definition was in the textbook, and which was the one I put in my lecture notes. Bonus points if you can make the definition even more accurate by adding a single word.
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