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xv, 634 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm.
Cutting-edge in approach, this book gives readers concrete tools for not only understanding public policy in general, but for analyzing specific public policies. It focuses on what policies governments pursue, why governments pursue the policies they do, and what the consequences of these policies are. Very contemporary in perspective, it introduces eight analytical models currently used by political scientists to describe and explain political life and then, using these various analytical models -- singly and in combination -- explores specific public policies in a variety of key domestic policy areas. Explores eight analytic models -- rationalism, incrementalism, elitism, interest group conflict, institutionalism, game theory, public choice, and the familiar policy process model. Uses the various analytic models to describe and explain public policy in such areas as criminal justice, health and welfare, education, economic policy, taxation, international trade and immigration, environmental protection, civil rights, federalism, and national defense. For anyone interested in the complex dynamics of the public policy making process in relation to a broad range of contemporary issues.
Preface -- Politics in states and communities -- Democracy and constitutionalism in the states -- States, communities, and American federalism -- Participation in state politics -- Parties and campaigns in the states -- Legislators in state politics -- Governors in state politics -- Bureaucratic politics in states and communities -- Courts, crime, and correctional policy -- Governing America's communities -- Participation in community politics -- Metropolitics : conflict in the metropolis -- Community power, land use, and the environment -- The politics of taxation and finance -- Politics and civil rights -- The politics of education -- The politics of poverty, welfare, and health -- Notes -- Photo credits -- Index.
Thomas R. Dye, Susan A. MacManus; with the assistance of Kristine Zooberg, Andrew F. Quecan, Ralph Reid.
Includes bibliographical references and index.