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Public policymaking an introduction / James Anderson.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Boston, MA : Cengage, c2011.Edition: 7th edDescription: ix, 342 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780618974726
  • 9780495901518
  • 9780495797371
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • JK468.P64 A56
Contents:
Plan of this book -- 2 What is public policy? -- 3. Categories of public policies -- 4. Approaches to public policy -- 5. Methodological difficulties in studying public policy -- 6. Policy environment -- 7. Official policy makers -- 8. Nongovernmental participants -- 9. Levels of politics -- 10. Policy problems -- 11. Policy agenda -- 12. Agenda setting process -- 13. Nondecisions -- 14. Loss of agenda status -- 15. Two cases in agenda setting -- 16. Case study: coal mining safety -- 17. Case study: environmental pollution control -- 18. Theories of decision-making -- 19. Decision criteria -- 20. Public interest -- 21. Styles of decision making -- 22. Presidential decision-making -- 23. Case study: policy adoption: consumer bankruptcy -- 24. Budget and public policy -- 25. National budgetary process -- 26. Case study: the struggle to balance the budget -- 27. Federalism and implementalism -- 28. Who implements policy? -- 29. Administrative organization -- 30. Administrative politics -- 31. Administrative policymaking -- 32. Case study: National park service fire policy -- 33. Case study: Elementary and secondary education act -- 34. Techniques of control -- 35. Clean air act's emissions-trading system -- 36. Compliance -- 37. Policy impact -- 38. Policy evaluation -- 39. Policy evaluation processes -- 40. Case study: GAO and food safety -- 41. Problems in policy evaluation -- 42. Policy evaluation: the use and misuse of cost-benefit analysis -- 43. Case study: the politics of evaluation: head start -- 44. Policy termination -- 45. Case study: the policy cycle: airline regulation and deregulation.
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Includes index.

Plan of this book --
2 What is public policy? --
3. Categories of public policies --
4. Approaches to public policy --
5. Methodological difficulties in studying public policy --
6. Policy environment --
7. Official policy makers --
8. Nongovernmental participants --
9. Levels of politics --
10. Policy problems --
11. Policy agenda --
12. Agenda setting process --
13. Nondecisions --
14. Loss of agenda status --
15. Two cases in agenda setting --
16. Case study: coal mining safety --
17. Case study: environmental pollution control --
18. Theories of decision-making --
19. Decision criteria --
20. Public interest --
21. Styles of decision making --
22. Presidential decision-making --
23. Case study: policy adoption: consumer bankruptcy --
24. Budget and public policy --
25. National budgetary process --
26. Case study: the struggle to balance the budget --
27. Federalism and implementalism --
28. Who implements policy? --
29. Administrative organization --
30. Administrative politics --
31. Administrative policymaking --
32. Case study: National park service fire policy --
33. Case study: Elementary and secondary education act --
34. Techniques of control --
35. Clean air act's emissions-trading system --
36. Compliance --
37. Policy impact --
38. Policy evaluation --
39. Policy evaluation processes --
40. Case study: GAO and food safety --
41. Problems in policy evaluation --
42. Policy evaluation: the use and misuse of cost-benefit analysis --
43. Case study: the politics of evaluation: head start --
44. Policy termination --
45. Case study: the policy cycle: airline regulation and deregulation.

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