PREFACE 1 POLICY ANALYSIS: What Governments Do,Why They Do It, and What Difference It Makes What Is Public Policy? Why Study Public Policy? What Can Be Learned From Policy Analysis? Policy Analysis and Policy Advocacy Policy Analysis and the Quest for Solutions to America's Problems Policy Analysis as Art and Craft Note Biblicography Web Sites 2 MODELS OF POLITICS: Some Help in Thinking about Public Policy Models for Policy Anasysis Institutionalism: Policy as Institutional Output Process: Policy as Political Activity Rationalism: Policy as Maximum Social Gain Incrementalism: Policy as Variations on the Past Group Theory: Policy as Group Equilibrium Wlte Theory: Policy as Elite Preference Public Choice Theory: Policy as Collective Decision Game Theory: Policy as Rational Choice in Competitive Situations Models: How to Tell if They are Helping or Not Notes Bibliography Web Sites 3 THE POLICYMAKING PROCESS:Decision-Making Activities The Policy Process: How Policies Are Made …… 4 CRIMINAL JUSTICE: Rationality and Irrationality in Public Policy 5 HEALTH AND WELFARE: TheSearch 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 Nondeterrable Threats 15 POLICY EVALUATION: Finding Out What Happens after a Law is Passed INDEX
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