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  title info:
    title: Politics in states and communities
  name:
    name part: Dye, Thomas R.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: MacManus, Susan A.
  name:
    name part: Zooberg, Kristine.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    date issued: 2009
    edition: 13th ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 634 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: Thomas R. Dye, Susan A. MacManus; with the assistance of Kristine Zooberg, Andrew F. Quecan, Ralph Reid.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: State governments
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Local government
    geographic: United States
  classification: JK2408 .D82 2009
  classification: 320.80973
  identifier: 0136025358
  identifier: 9780136025351
  identifier: 2008001078
  identifier: http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip088/2008001078.html
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      url: http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip088/2008001078.html
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    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 080110
    record change date: 20151109091757.0
    record identifier: in00002403842