Emerging as a distinct subfield in the 1970s, policy history has come to earn a respected place in interdisciplinary scholarship today. In this volume, introduced by an essay that reviews the development of policy history and the intellectual and professional challenges it has faced, a distinguished group of historians, political scientists, and sociologists offers ideas for how policy history might evolve and continue to grow in the years ahead. Contents Introduction: New Directions in Policy History, Julian E. Zelizer Beyond Weak and Strong: Rethinking the State in Comparative Policy History, Peter Baldwin The Study of Policy Development, Paul Pierson Ideology and Public Policy: Antistatism in American Welfare State Transformation, Jill Quadagno and Debra Street On the Importance of Naming: Gender, Race, and the Writing of Policy History, Eileen Boris Diplomatic History and Policy History: Finding Common Ground, Robert J. McMahon 'Saint George and the Dragon': Courts and the Development of the Administrative State in Twentieth-Century America, Reuel Schiller Bringing the Welfare State Back In: The Promise (and Perils) of the New Social Welfare History, Jacob S. Hacker