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Understanding public policy / Thomas R. Dye.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boston : Pearson, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Edition: Fourteenth editionDescription: xiii, 372 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), colour maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0205238823
  • 9780205238828
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.60973 23
LOC classification:
  • JK468.P64 D95 2013
Contents:
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.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 320.60973 DYE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A499862B
Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 320.60973 DYE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A499859B

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.

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