American public policy : promise and performance /: promise and performance. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: B. Guy Peters.
• Authors: Peters, B. Guy
• Contents: PART ONE: THE NATURE OF PUBLIC POLICY; Chapter One: What is Public Policy; Defining Public Policy; The Instruments of Public Policy; The Environment of Public Policy; Summary; Chapter Two: The Structure of Policymaking in American Government; Federalism; Separation of Powers; Subgovernments; Public and Private; The Size and Shape of the Public Sector; Summary; Chapter Three: Explaining Policy Choices; Power and Public Policy; The Policy Process—The Stages Model; Institutional Models of Policy; Advocacy-Coalition Framework; Policy Causes Politics; Bounded Rationality, Multiple Streams, and Incrementalism; The Private Sector, Iron Triangles, and Networks; Optimal Decision Making; Constructivist Models; Summary; PART TWO: THE MAKING OF PUBLIC POLICY; Chapter Four: Agenda Setting and Public Policy; Agenda Setting; Kinds of Agendas; Who Sets Agendas?; From Problem to Issue: How to Get Problems on the Agenda; Focusing Events; Policy Formulation; Policy Design; Summary; Chapter Five: Legitimating Policy Choices; Legislative Legitimation; Regulations and the Administrative Process; The Courts; Popular Legitimation; Summary; Chapter Six: Organizations and Implementation; Dramatis Personae; Implementation; The Organizational Setting; Summary; Chapter Seven: Budgeting: Allocation and Public Policy; Characteristics of the Federal Budget; The Budget Cycle; Problems in the Budget Process; The Overhang; Reforming Budgeting: Large-Scale Approaches in the 1960s and 1970s; From Scalpels to Axes: Budget Reform from the 1980s to the 2000s; Summary; Chapter Eight: Evaluation and Policy Change; Problems in Evaluating Public Programs; Policy Change; Summary; PART THREE: SUBSTANTIVE POLICY ISSUES; Chapter Nine: Economic Policy; Background; The Goals of Economic Policy; The Instruments of Economic Policy; Summary; Chapter Ten: Tax Policy; Background; Public Opinion and Taxation; Choices in Tax Policy; The Politics of Tax Reform; Summary; Chapter 11: Health Care Policies; Problems in Health Care; The Affordable Care Act of 2010; Public Programs in Health Care; Health Care Regulation; Options for National Health Insurance; Summary; Chapter Twelve: Social Security and Welfare; Social Insurance; Means-Tested Programs; The Persistence of Poverty in the United States; Summary; Chapter Thirteen: Education Policy; The Federal Government’s Role in Education; Issues of Education Policy; Summary; Chapter Fourteen: Energy and the Environment; Background; Energy Sources; The Formation of Energy Policy; Environmental Policies; Implementation of Environmental Controls; Summary; Chapter Fifteen: Defense and Law Enforcement; Background; Defense Policy; Problems of Defense Policy; Law Enforcement; Issues in Law Enforcement Policy; Summary; Chapter Sixteen: Social Values and Public Policy; Background; Abortion and Reproductive Rights; Gay Rights: Politics Comes Out of the Closet; The Separation of Church and State: School Prayer and Other Issues; Summary; PART FOUR: ANALYZING PUBLIC POLICY; Chapter Seventeen: Policy Analysis: Cost-Benefit Analysis and Ethical Analysis<br /> Cost-Benefit Analysis; Ethical Analysis of Public Policy; Summary;
• Edition: Tenth edition
• Publisher Details: Washington, D.C : CQ Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 320.60973; Political planning -- United States; United States -- Politics and government
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781483391496
• Related ISBNs: 9781483391502
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; item not viewed.
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