TY  - BOOK
AU  - Anderson,James E.
TI  - Public policymaking: an introduction 
SN  - 9780618974726
AV  - JK468.P64 A56 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Boston, MA
PB  - Cengage
KW  - Political planning
KW  - Policy sciences
N1  - 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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