Understanding public policy /
Dye, Thomas R.,
Understanding public policy / Thomas R. Dye. - Fourteenth edition. - xiii, 372 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), colour maps ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Policy analysis: what governments do, why they do it, and what difference it makes -- 2. Models of politics: some help in thinking about public policy -- 3. The policymaking process: decision-making activities -- 4. Policy eEvaluation: finding out what happens after a law is passed -- 5. Federalism and state policies: institutional arrangements and policy variations -- 6. Criminal justice: rationality and irrationality in public policy -- 7. Welfare: the search for rational strategies -- 8. Health care: attempting a rational comprehensive transformation -- 9. Education: group struggles -- 10. Economic policy: challenging incrementalism -- 11. Tax policy: battling the special interests -- 12. International trade and immigration: elite-mass conflict -- 13. Energy and the environment: externalities and interests -- 14. Civil rights: elite and mass interaction -- 15. Defense policy: strategies for serious games -- 16. Homeland security: terrorism and nondeterrable threats.
0205238823 9780205238828
2011045837
Political planning--United States
Policy sciences
United States--Politics and government.
JK468.P64 / D95 2013
320.60973
Understanding public policy / Thomas R. Dye. - Fourteenth edition. - xiii, 372 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), colour maps ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Policy analysis: what governments do, why they do it, and what difference it makes -- 2. Models of politics: some help in thinking about public policy -- 3. The policymaking process: decision-making activities -- 4. Policy eEvaluation: finding out what happens after a law is passed -- 5. Federalism and state policies: institutional arrangements and policy variations -- 6. Criminal justice: rationality and irrationality in public policy -- 7. Welfare: the search for rational strategies -- 8. Health care: attempting a rational comprehensive transformation -- 9. Education: group struggles -- 10. Economic policy: challenging incrementalism -- 11. Tax policy: battling the special interests -- 12. International trade and immigration: elite-mass conflict -- 13. Energy and the environment: externalities and interests -- 14. Civil rights: elite and mass interaction -- 15. Defense policy: strategies for serious games -- 16. Homeland security: terrorism and nondeterrable threats.
0205238823 9780205238828
2011045837
Political planning--United States
Policy sciences
United States--Politics and government.
JK468.P64 / D95 2013
320.60973