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| List of Tables | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Process, Structure, and Ideology | |
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| The Policy Process | |
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| Characteristics of the American Political System | |
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| Is Government a Failure? | |
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| Ideology: From Value Positions to Issue Positions | |
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| Key Concepts | |
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| Reflections | |
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| Notes | |
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| Economic Policy: To Promote the General Welfare | |
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| Problem Identification | |
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| How Have We Done? | |
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| Agenda Building and Economic Policy | |
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| Policy Issues | |
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| Economic Inequality | |
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| Globalization and International Trade | |
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| Problems with Globalization | |
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| Case Study: Social Security in Crisis? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Key Concepts | |
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| Reflections | |
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| Notes | |
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| Foreign Policy: To Provide for the Common Defense | |
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| Problem Identification | |
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| Formulation, Adoption, and Implementation: Changing Direction | |
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| Case Study: The Global War on Terrorism | |
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| The Middle East | |
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| Asia | |
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| Africa | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Key Concepts | |
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| Reflections | |
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| Notes | |
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| Poverty and Welfare: The Poor Ye Always Have with You? | |
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| Problem Identification | |
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| Who Are the Poor? | |
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| Formulation, Adoption, and Implementation: Antipoverty Strategies | |
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| Case Study: The End of Welfare as We Know It | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Key Concepts | |
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| Reflections | |
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| Notes | |
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| Health Policy: The Problems of Cost and Access | |
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| Problem Identification | |
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| Medical Care in the United States | |
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| The Federal Role in Medical Care | |
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| Medicare | |
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| Medicaid | |
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| Formulation, Adoption, and Implementation: Cost Control | |
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| Policy Succession | |
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| Problem Identification | |
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| Case Study: Consumer-Driven Health Care | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Key Concepts | |
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| Reflections | |
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| Notes | |
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| Environmental Policy: Challenges and Opportunities | |
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| Problem Identification | |
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| Adoption and Implementation | |
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| Policy Succession: Environmental Policy from Reagan to Bush II | |
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| Environmental Issues | |
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| Case Study no.1: Global Climate Warming | |
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| Case Study no.2 The Elusive Search for Energy Independence | |
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| Challenges | |
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| Conclusion: Opportunities | |
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| Key Concepts | |
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| Reflections | |
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| Notes | |
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| Criminal Justice: To Ensure Domestic Tranquility | |
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| Problem Identification | |
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| Evaluating Criminal Justice Policy: Why Did the Crime Rate Drop? | |
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| Criminal Justice Issues | |
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| Case Study: The War over the War on Drugs | |
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| Conclusion: Solutions to the Crime Problem? | |
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| Key Concepts | |
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| Reflections | |
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| Notes | |
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| Education: The Promise of America | |
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| Problem Identification | |
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| How Have We Done? | |
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| Agenda Building and Policy Adoption | |
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| Equality and Education Policy | |
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| The Federal Government and Educational Reform | |
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| The Question of Choice | |
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| Case Study: No Child Left Behind | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Key Concepts | |
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| Reflections | |
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| Notes | |
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| Equality: The Second American Revolution | |
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| Problem Identification: Equality Defined | |
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| Political Equality | |
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| Equality of Opportunity | |
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| Equality of Outcome | |
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| A Statistical Portrait of America: Now and in the Future | |
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| The Civil Rights Movement | |
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| Narrowing the Gap | |
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| Race Relations as a Wedge Issue | |
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| Attitudes About Race | |
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| Case Study: Affirmative Action | |
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| Gay Rights or Gay Wrongs | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Key Concepts | |
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| Reflections | |
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| Notes | |
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| At the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century | |
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| Themes | |
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| Public Opinion | |
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| Divided Government | |
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| Challenges and Opportunities | |
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| Some Concluding Thoughts | |
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| Reflections | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |