Public policy : the essential readings

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Public policy : the essential readings

[edited by] Stella Z. Theodoulou, Matthew A. Cahn

Prentice Hall, c1995

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A collection of 46 key classic and contemporary readings on public policy and public policy issues.

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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 vii 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 viii 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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