Public policy : the essential readings
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Public policy : the essential readings
Prentice Hall, c1995
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A collection of 46 key classic and contemporary readings on public policy and public policy issues.
Table of Contents
Preface xi
PART ONE
The Nature of Public Policy 1
What is public policy, who makes it, and why study it?
1. The Contemporary Language of Public Policy: A Starting Point,
Stella Z. Theodoulou 1
2. Political Science and Public Policy, Paul A. Sabatier 10
3. Distribution, Regulation, Redistribution: The Functions of
Government, Theodore J. Lowi 15
4. Symbols and Political Quiescence, Murray Edelman 26
5. The Analysis of Public Policy: A Search for Theories and Roles,
Robert H. Salisbury 34
6. With the Consent of All, Robert A. Dahl 38
7. Issue Networks and the Executive Establishment,
Hugh Heclo 46
8. Imperfect Competition, Ralph Miliband 58
9. Group Politics and Representative Democracy, David B. Truman 66
10. The Power Elite, C. Wright Mills 72
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PART TWO
Making Public Policy 86
The process, structure, and context of policy making
11. How Public Policy Is Made, Stella Z. Theodoulou 86
12. Issues and Agendas, Roger W. Cobb and Charles D. Elder 96
13. Agenda Setting, John W. Kingdon 105
14. The Science of ``Muddling Through,'' Charles E. Lindblom 113
15. Nonincremental Policy Making, Paul R. Schulman 128
16. The Implementation Game, Eugene Bardach 137
17. Implementation as Evolution, Giandomenico Majone and
Aaron Wildavsky 140
18. A Conceptual Framework of the Implementation Process,
Paul A. Sabatier and Daniel A. Mazmanian 153
19. The Role of Evaluation in Public Policy, David Nachmias 173
20. Trends in Policy Analysis, Stuart Nagel 181
21. The Politics of Public Budgets, Irene S. Rubin 185
PART THREE
The Players 201
Institutional and noninstitutional actors
22. The Players: Institutional and Noninstitutional Actors in
the Policy Process, Matthew A. Cahn 201
23. Congress: Keystone of the Washington Establishment,
Morris Fiorina 212
24. Congress: The Electoral Connection, David Mayhew 220
25. The Presidential Policy Stream, Paul Light 224
26. The Two Presidencies, Aaron Wildavsky 237
27. The Rise of the Bureaucratic State, James Q. Wilson 251
28. Bureaucracy, Max Weber 259
29. Regulation: Politics, Bureaucracy, and Economics,
Kenneth J. Meier 265
30. Appellate Courts as Policy Makers, Lawrence Baum 277
31. Towards an Imperial Judiciary?, Nathan Glazer 288
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32. News That Matters, Shanto Iyengar and Donald Kinder 295
33. Processing the News: How People Tame the Information Tide,
Doris Graber 305
34. Parties, the Government, and the Policy Process,
Samuel J. Eldersveld 312
35. The Advocacy Explosion, Jeffrey M. Berry 317
36. The Consultant Corps, Larry J. Sabato 324
PART FOUR
The Policy Game 333
Rules, strategies, culture, and resources
37. Playing the Policy Game, Matthew A. Cahn 333
38. An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution, Charles Beard 342
39. The Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison,
and John Jay 350
40. Political Repression in the United States, Michael Rogin 358
41. Democracy and Capitalism, Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis 368
42. Capitalism and Freedom, Milton Friedman 372
43. Presidential Power, Richard Neustadt 376
44. Constructing the Political Spectacle, Murray Edelman 381
45. A Preface to Economic Democracy, Robert A. Dahl 389
46. Who Rules America Now?, G. William Domhoff 393
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