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| Models and Process Approach | |
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| Models and Policy Substance Approach | |
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| Discussion-Driven Non-Economic Approach | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction to Public Policy | |
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| Policy and Visions of Governance | |
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| Chapter Overview | |
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| A Working Definition of Public Policy | |
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| Classical Liberalism | |
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| The Philosophical Softening of Some Assumptions of Classical Liberalism | |
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| Modern Liberalism and Public Policy | |
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| The Nature of Liberalism in the United States | |
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| Communitarianism: Another Way of Viewing Society and Policy | |
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| Public Policy: Political Liberalism and Communitarianism, A Balancing Act? | |
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| Lessons Learned | |
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| Questions for Study | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Theories of Public Policy: How Choices Are Made | |
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| Chapter Overview | |
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| The Importance of Science in Studying Public Policy | |
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| The Rational-Comprehensive Model | |
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| Incrementalism | |
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| Public Choice | |
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| Group Theory | |
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| Systems Theory | |
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| Institutionalism | |
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| Elite Theory | |
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| Game Theory | |
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| Neo-Institutionalism | |
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| Lessons Learned | |
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| Questions for Study | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Values and Public Policy | |
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| Chapter Overview | |
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| Regime Values and Personal Values | |
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| Civic Engagement, Social Capital, and Values | |
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| Bases of Individual Values | |
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| Economics and Societal Value Changes | |
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| How Values Have and Continue to Change | |
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| Lessons Learned | |
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| Questions for Study | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Policy Analysis | |
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| Chapter Overview | |
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| Economics | |
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| Rise of Policy Sciences | |
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| Growth of Public Policy | |
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| Central Questions for Public Policy Analysis | |
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| Tools for Policy Analysis | |
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| Outcomes of Public Policy Analysis | |
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| Ethics and Policy Analysis | |
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| Lessons Learned | |
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| Questions for Study | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Policy Process | |
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| Agenda Setting | |
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| Chapter Overview | |
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| How Does Agenda Setting Work? | |
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| The President as Agenda Setter | |
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| Congress and the Policy Agenda | |
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| Congressional-Executive Relations and Agenda Setting | |
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| The Courts and the Policy Agenda | |
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| Pressure Groups and Agenda Setting | |
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| Bureaucracy and Agenda Setting | |
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| Media and Agenda Setting | |
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| Elections and the Policy Agenda | |
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| Cultural Change and Agenda Setting | |
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| Biases in Political Participation and Agenda Setting | |
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| Explaining Agenda Setting | |
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| Lessons Learned | |
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| Questions for Study | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Policy Formulation | |
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| Chapter Overview | |
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| How Is Policy Formulated? | |
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| Major Actors in Policy Formulation | |
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| Demographic Changes and Policy Formulation | |
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| Explaining Policy Formulation | |
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| Group Theory and Policy Formulation | |
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| Lessons Learned | |
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| Questions for Study | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Policy Implementation | |
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| Chapter Overview | |
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| A Theoretical Model of Policy Implementation | |
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| Issues Surrounding Implementation | |
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| Major Participants in Policy Implementation | |
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| Explaining Policy Implementation | |
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| Lessons Learned | |
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| Questions for Study | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Policy Evaluation | |
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| Chapter Overview | |
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| Skills of a Good Policy Evaluator | |
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| General Purposes of Evaluation | |
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| Internal Versus External Evaluation | |
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| Steps in Policy Evaluation | |
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| Types of Data and Evaluation | |
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| Types of Evaluations | |
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| Lessons Learned | |
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| Questions for Study | |
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| Endnote | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations (IGR) | |
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| Chapter Overview | |
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| Arguments in Favor of Federalism | |
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| Thinking About Federalism | |
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| Dual Federalism Model | |
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| Cooperative Federalism | |
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| Nation-Centered Federalism | |
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| Clintonian Federalism and Beyond | |
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| Intergovernmental Relations | |
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| Intergovernmental Collaborative Policy-Making | |
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| Fiscal Federalism | |
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| Lessons Learned | |
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| Questions for Study | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Major Public Policies | |
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| Defense Policy | |
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| Chapter Overview | |
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| The Defense Policy Structure | |
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| Major Participants in Defense Policy | |
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| Defense Policy During the Cold War | |
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| Nuclear Arms Race | |
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| Nuclear Weapons Treaties | |
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| Policy Dissatisfaction Produces a Policy Shift | |
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| Post-Cold War Era | |
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| Post-Post Cold War Era and the War on Terrorism | |
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| Changing Target Populations in the Post-Post Cold War World | |
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| Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) | |
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| Ballistic Missile Defense | |
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| Homeland Security | |
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| Explaining Defense Policy | |
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| Lessons Learned | |
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| Questions for Study | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Public Health Policy | |
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| Chapter Overview | |
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| Major Actors in Public Health Policy | |
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| Food and Drug Administration (FDA) | |
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| Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) | |
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| Indian Health Service (IHS) | |
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| National Institutes of Health (NIH) | |
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| Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) | |
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| Explaining Public Health Policy | |
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| Lessons Learned | |
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| Questions for Study | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| General Social Policy | |
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| Chapter Overview | |
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| Scope of Social Policy | |
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| Major Policy Actors | |
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| Major Social Policy Agencies and Their Functions | |
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| Explaining General Social Policy | |
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| Lessons Learned | |
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| Questions for Study | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Education Policy | |
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| Chapter Overview | |
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| Major Participants in Education Policy | |
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| The Common School Movement: The Foundation of Modern Public Schools | |
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| Post-World War II Education Policy | |
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| Education Policy Reform Proposals | |
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| Moving Toward the Twenty-First Century | |
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| Explaining Education Policy | |
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| Lessons Learned | |
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| Questions for Study | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Criminal Justice Policy | |
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| Chapter Overview | |
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| Major Participants | |
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| Types of Crime | |
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| Causes of Crime | |
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| Crimes and Criminal Procedure | |
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| Perspectives on Punishment | |
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| Incarceration Policy and Management | |
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| Hot Topic Crimes in the Twenty-First Century | |
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| Contemporary Policing Techniques and Issues | |
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| Explaining Criminal Justice Policy | |
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| Lessons Learned | |
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| Questions for Study | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Environmental and Natural Resource Policy | |
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| Chapter Overview | |
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| The Commons | |
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| Key Actors in Environmental Policy | |
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| Ecoterrorism | |
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| Federal Environmental Regulations | |
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| Natural Resources in the United States | |
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| Resources We Take from Our Public Lands | |
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| Water Politics and Policy | |
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| Alternative Energy: Protecting the Environment and Reducing Harmful Extractions | |
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| Explaining Environmental Policy | |
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| Lessons Learned | |
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| Questions for Study | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Cost of Policy | |
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| Chapter Overview | |
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| A Definition of Budgeting | |
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| Explaining the Size of the National Budget | |
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| Budget Cycle | |
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| Major Participants and Influences | |
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| Budget Theory | |
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| Politics of Entitlement | |
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| The Budget and Implications for Policy | |
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| Explaining Public Budgeting | |
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| Lessons Learned | |
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| Questions for Study | |
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| Endnote | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Conclusion: Future of Public Policy | |
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| Chapter Overview | |
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| Commodification/Decommodification | |
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| Technology and the Future of Policy | |
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| Values and the Future of Policy | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Photo Credits | |
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| Index | |