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. Criminal Justice: Rationality and Irrationality in Public Policy. 

 5. Health and Welfare: The Search for Rational Strategies. 

 6. Education: The Group Struggle. 

 7. Economic Policy: Incrementalism at Work. 

 8. Tax Policy: Battling the Special Interests. 

 9. International Trade and Immigration: Elite-Mass Conflict.

10. Environmental Policy: Externalities and Interests.

11. Civil Rights: Elite and Mass Interaction.

12. American Federalism: Institutional Arrangements and Public Policy.

13. Defense Policy: Strategies for Serious Games.

14. Homeland Security: Terrorism and Non-Deterable Threats.

15. Policy Evaluation: Finding Out What Happens after a Law Is Passed.

Index.

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