Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies, Update Edition, with an Epilogue on Health Care

Name: Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies, Update Edition, with an Epilogue on Health Care
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ISBN: 9780205000869

ISBN-10: 020500086X

ISBN-13: 9780205000869

Edition: 2nd 2011

Authors: John Kingdon

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Longman is proud to announce thatAgendas, Alternatives, and Public Policieshas been reissued in this Longman Classics edition, featuring a new epilogue: Health Care Reform from Clinton to Obama. Comparing the Clinton administration in 1993 with the Obama administration in 2009 and 2010, Kingdon analyses how agenda setting, actors, and alternatives affect public policy. Kingdonrs"s landmark work on agenda setting and policy formation is drawn from interview conducted with people in and around the U.S. federal government, and from case studies, government documents, party platforms, press coverage, and public opinion surveys. While other works examine how policy issues are decided,…

Book details

List price: $126.65
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication date: 6/17/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 1.100



Preface to the First Edition


Preface to the Second Edition



How Does an Idea's Time Come?


Concepts and Definitions


A Brief Account of the Research


The Lay of the Land


Some Explanations


A Brief Preview of the Book



Participants on the Inside of Government


The Administration


By Contrast: Civil Servants


Capitol Hill


Conclusion



Outside of Government, but Not Just Looking In


Interest Groups


Academics, Researchers, and Consultants


The Media


Elections-Related Participants


Public Opinion


Conclusion



Processes: Origins, Rationality, Incrementalism, and Garbage Cans


Origins


Comprehensive, Rational Decision Making


Incrementalism


The Federal Government and Garbage Cans



Problems


Indicators


Focusing Events, Crises, and Symbols


Feedback


Why Problems Fade


Budgets: A Special Problem


Problem Definition


Conclusion



The Policy Primeval Soup


Policy Communities


Communities and the Soup


Criteria for Survival


The Short List of Ideas


Conclusion



The Political Stream


The National Mood


Organized Political Forces


Government in the Political Stream


Consensus-Building in the Political Stream


Conclusion



The Policy Window, and Joining the Streams


What Policy Windows Are and Why They Open


Coupling


Policy Entrepreneurs


Occurrence of Windows


Spillovers


Conclusion



Wrapping Things Up


Agenda Setting


Alternative Specification


Coupling and Windows


Entrepreneurs


Conclusion



Some Further Reflections


New Case Studies


Thoughts about the Modelling


Epilogue: Health Care Reform in the Clinton and Obama Administrations


Problems


Policies


The Political Stream


The Open Window


The Rest of the Story


Conclusion


Appendix on Methods


The Interviews


Coding


Case Studies


Noninterview Measures of Agenda Status


Index