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| Preface | |
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| The Study of Public Policy | |
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| The Plan of This Book | |
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| What Is Public Policy? | |
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| Categories of Public Policies | |
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| Approaches to Policy Study | |
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| Methodological Difficulties in Studying Public Policy | |
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| For Further Exploration | |
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| Test Your Knowledge | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Policy-Makers and Their Environment | |
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| The Policy Environment | |
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| The Official Policy-Makers | |
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| Nongovernmental Participants | |
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| Levels of Politics | |
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| Case Study The Endangered Snail Darter | |
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| For Further Exploration | |
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| Test Your Knowledge | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Notes | |
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| Policy Formation: Problems, Agendas, and Formulation | |
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| Policy Problems | |
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| The Policy Agenda | |
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| The Agenda-Setting Process | |
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| Nondecisions | |
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| The Loss of Agenda Status | |
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| Two Cases in Agenda Setting | |
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| Case Study Coal-Mine Safety | |
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| Case Study Environmental Pollution Control | |
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| The Formulation of Policy Proposals | |
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| Policy Formulation as a Technical Process | |
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| Case Study Formulating Policy: The Family and Medical Leave Act | |
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| A Concluding Comment | |
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| For Further Exploration | |
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| Test Your Knowledge | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Notes | |
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| Policy Adoption | |
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| Theories of Decision-Making | |
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| Decision Criteria | |
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| The Public Interest | |
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| Styles of Decision-Making | |
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| Presidential Decision-Making | |
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| Case Study Policy Adoption: Consumer Bankruptcy | |
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| Case Study Policy Adoption: The Economic Stimulus Act | |
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| For Further Exploration | |
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| Test Your Knowledge | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Notes | |
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| Budgeting and Public Policy | |
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| The Budget and Public Policy | |
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| Fiscal Policy | |
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| The National Budgetary Process | |
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| Case Study The Struggle to Balance the Budget | |
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| For Further Exploration | |
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| Test Your Knowledge | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Notes | |
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| Policy Implementation | |
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| Federalism and Implementation | |
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| Case Study The Elementary and Secondary Education Act | |
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| Who Implements Policy? | |
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| Administrative Organization | |
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| Administrative Politics | |
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| Administrative Policymaking | |
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| Case Study The Nuclear Waste Disposal Act | |
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| Case Study The Total Maximum Daily Load Program | |
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| Techniques of Control | |
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| Case Study The Clean Air Act's Emissions-Trading System | |
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| Compliance | |
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| For Further Exploration | |
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| Test Your Knowledge | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Notes | |
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| Policy Impact, Evaluation, and Change | |
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| Policy Impact | |
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| Policy Evaluation | |
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| Policy Evaluation Processes | |
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| Case Study The GAO and Food Safety | |
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| Problems in Policy Evaluation | |
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| Policy Evaluation: The Use and Misuse of Cost-Benefit Analysis | |
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| Case Study The Politics of Evaluation: Head Start | |
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| Policy Termination | |
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| Case Study The Policy Cycle: Airline Regulation and Deregulation | |
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| For Further Exploration | |
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| Test Your Knowledge | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Notes | |
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| Concluding Comments | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |