TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dye,Thomas R.
TI  - Understanding public policy
SN  - 0205238823
AV  - JK468.P64 D95 2013
U1  - 320.60973 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Boston
PB  - Pearson
KW  - Political planning
KW  - United States
KW  - Policy sciences
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - 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
ER  -