PREFACE
1 POLICY ANALYSIS: What Governments Do,Why They Do It, and What Difference It Makes
What Is Public Policy?
Why Study Public Policy?
What Can Be Learned From Policy Analysis?
Policy Analysis and Policy Advocacy
Policy Analysis and the Quest for Solutions to America's Problems
Policy Analysis as Art and Craft
Note
Biblicography
Web Sites
2 MODELS OF POLITICS: Some Help in Thinking about Public Policy
Models for Policy Anasysis
Institutionalism: Policy as Institutional Output
Process: Policy as Political Activity
Rationalism: Policy as Maximum Social Gain
Incrementalism: Policy as Variations on the Past
Group Theory: Policy as Group Equilibrium
Wlte Theory: Policy as Elite Preference
Public Choice Theory: Policy as Collective Decision
Game Theory: Policy as Rational Choice in Competitive Situations
Models: How to Tell if They are Helping or Not
Notes
Bibliography
Web Sites
3 THE POLICYMAKING PROCESS:Decision-Making Activities
The Policy Process: How Policies Are Made
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4 CRIMINAL JUSTICE: Rationality and Irrationality in Public Policy
5 HEALTH AND WELFARE: TheSearch for Rational Strategies
6 EDUCATION: The Group Struggle
7 ECONOMIC POLICY: Incrementalism at Work
8 TAX POLICY: Battling the Special Interests
9 INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND IMMIGRATION:Elite-Mass Conflict
10 ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: Externalities and Interests
11 CIVIL RIGHTS: Elite and Mass Interaction
12 AMERICAN FEDERALISM: Institutional Arrangements and Public Policy
13 DEFENSE POLICY: Strategies for Serious Games
14 HOMELAND SECURITY: Terrorism and Nondeterrable Threats
15 POLICY EVALUATION: Finding Out What Happens after a Law is Passed
INDEX
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