Public Policymaking
ISBN: 9780618974726 | 0618974725
Edition: 7thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 1/1/2010
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To explain the fundamentals of public policy, this best-selling text focuses on the process behind the crafting of legislation. By examining the individual steps--from identifying a problem, to agenda setting, to evaluation, revision, or termination of a policy--students are able to see how different factors influence the creation of policy. Each chapter features at least one case study that illustrates how general ideas are applied to specific policy issues. This new Seventh Edition addresses the economic crisis as well as how the Obama administration differs from the Bush administration in its approach to policy making.
| Preface | p. vii |
| The Study of Public Policy | p. l |
| The Plan of This Book | p. 2 |
| What Is Public Policy? | p. 6 |
| Categories of Public Policies | p. 9 |
| Approaches to Policy Study | p. 18 |
| Methodological Difficulties in Studying Public Policy | p. 29 |
| For Further Exploration | p. 31 |
| Test Your Knowledge | p. 32 |
| Suggested Readings | ... MORE |
| Notes | p. 33 |
| The Policy-Makers and Their Environment | p. 36 |
| The Policy Environment | p. 40 |
| The Official Policy-Makers | p. 48 |
| Nongovernmental Participants | p. 59 |
| Levels of Politics | p. 69 |
| Case Study The Endangered Snail Darter | p. 75 |
| For Further Exploration | p. 77 |
| Test Your Knowledge | p. 77 |
| Suggested Readings | p. 77 |
| Notes | p. 78 |
| Policy Formation: Problems, Agendas, and Formulation | p. 83 |
| Policy Problems | p. 85 |
| The Policy Agenda | p. 90 |
| The Agenda-Setting Process | p. 93 |
| Nondecisions | p. 100 |
| The Loss of Agenda Status | p. 101 |
| Two Cases in Agenda Setting | p. 102 |
| Case Study Coal-Mine Safety | p. 102 |
| Case Study Environmental Pollution Control | p. 705 |
| The Formulation of Policy Proposals | p. 107 |
| Policy Formulation as a Technical Process | p. 112 |
| Case Study Formulating Policy: The Family and Medical Leave Act | p. 114 |
| A Concluding Comment | p. 119 |
| For Further Exploration | p. 119 |
| Test Your Knowledge | p. 120 |
| Suggested Readings | p. 120 |
| Notes | p. 121 |
| Policy Adoption | p. 125 |
| Theories of Decision-Making | p. 126 |
| Decision Criteria | p. 131 |
| The Public Interest | p. 142 |
| Styles of Decision-Making | p. 144 |
| Presidential Decision-Making | p. 152 |
| Case Study Policy Adoption: Consumer Bankruptcy | p. 156 |
| Case Study Policy Adoption: The Economic Stimulus Act | p. 162 |
| For Further Exploration | p. 164 |
| Test Your Knowledge | p. 164 |
| Suggested Readings | p. 164 |
| Notes | p. 165 |
| Budgeting and Public Policy | p. 169 |
| The Budget and Public Policy | p. 170 |
| Fiscal Policy | p. 175 |
| The National Budgetary Process | p. 176 |
| Case Study The Struggle to Balance the Budget | p. 194 |
| For Further Exploration | p. 204 |
| Test Your Knowledge | p. 205 |
| Suggested Readings | p. 205 |
| Notes | p. 206 |
| Policy Implementation | p. 209 |
| Federalism and Implementation | p. 211 |
| Case Study The Elementary and Secondary Education Act | p. 213 |
| Who Implements Policy? | p. 216 |
| Administrative Organization | p. 222 |
| Administrative Politics | p. 225 |
| Administrative Policymaking | p. 231 |
| Case Study The Nuclear Waste Disposal Act | p. 239 |
| Case Study The Total Maximum Daily Load Program | p. 240 |
| Techniques of Control | p. 242 |
| Case Study The Clean Air Act's Emissions-Trading System | p. 253 |
| Compliance | p. 254 |
| For Further Exploration | p. 263 |
| Test Your Knowledge | p. 263 |
| Suggested Readings | p. 264 |
| Notes | p. 264 |
| Policy Impact, Evaluation, and Change | p. 271 |
| Policy Impact | p. 271 |
| Policy Evaluation | p. 276 |
| Policy Evaluation Processes | p. 280 |
| Case Study The GAO and Food Safety | p. 283 |
| Problems in Policy Evaluation | p. 287 |
| Policy Evaluation: The Use and Misuse of Cost-Benefit Analysis | p. 292 |
| Case Study The Politics of Evaluation: Head Start | p. 297 |
| Policy Termination | p. 301 |
| Case Study The Policy Cycle: Airline Regulation and Deregulation | p. 304 |
| For Further Exploration | p. 313 |
| Test Your Knowledge | p. 313 |
| Suggested Readings | p. 313 |
| Notes | p. 314 |
| Concluding Comments | p. 320 |
| Notes | p. 330 |
| Index | p. 332 |
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