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Understanding public policy

Title: Understanding public policy / Thomas R. Dye.
Author: Dye, Thomas R.
Publication: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, ©1984.

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xii, 377 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Cutting-edge in approach, this book gives readers concrete tools for not only understanding public policy in general, but for analyzing specific public policies. It focuses on what policies governments pursue, why governments pursue the policies they do, and what the consequences of these policies are. Very contemporary in perspective, it introduces eight analytical models currently used by political scientists to describe and explain political life and then, using these various analytical models--singly and in combination--explores specific public policies in a variety of key domestic policy areas. Explores eight analytic models--rationalism, incrementalism, elitism, interest group conflict, institutionalism, game theory, public choice, and the familiar policy process model. Uses the various analytic models to describe and explain public policy in such areas as criminal justice, health and welfare, education, economic policy, taxation, international trade and immigration, environmental protection, civil rights, federalism, and national defense. For anyone interested in the complex dynamics of the public policy making process in relation to a broad range of contemporary issues.

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Includes bibliographies and index.

ISBN

0139369481
9780139369483

LCCN

83013945

OCLC

ocm09682542
9682542
SCSB-8967426

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Princeton University Library