This revised analysis defines US public policy and its environments, as well as identifying the governmental structures through which policy is designed and reshaped. It also explains the procedure of policy-making, from the agenda-setting stage to implementation through evaluation.

B. Guy Peters

Chatham House Publishers ; : Seven Bridges Press

Chatham House Publishers, Incorporated

Chatham House Publishing

5th ed., New York, New York State, 1999

United States, United States of America

5th ed, New York, London, c1999

Volume 1999, 1999

Some text too tight due to tight binding

Includes bibliographical references and index.

topic: Political planning; Policy sciences; Politique publique; Sciences de la politique

Type: 英文图书

Bookmarks:
1. (p1) Preface to the Fifth Edition
2. (p2) Part One: The Nature of Public Policy
2.1. (p3) 1. What Is Public Policy?
2.2. (p7) 2. The Structure of Policymaking
3. (p13) Part Two: The Making of Public Policy
3.1. (p14) 3. Agenda Setting and Policy Formulation
3.1.1. (p15) Agenda Setting
3.1.2. (p16) Kinds of Agendas
3.1.3. (p17) Who Sets Agendas?
3.1.4. (p18) From Problem to Issue: How to Get Problems on the Agenda
3.1.5. (p19) Policy Formulation
3.2. (p20) 4. Legitimating Policy Choices
3.2.1. (p21) Legislative Legitimation
3.2.2. (p22) Oversight
3.2.3. (p23) Regulations and the Administrative Process
3.3. (p24) 5. Organizations and Implementation
3.3.1. (p25) Dramatis Personae
3.3.2. (p26) Implementation
3.3.3. (p27) The Organizational Setting
3.4. (p28) 6. Budgeting
3.4.1. (p29) Characteristics of the Federal Budget
3.4.2. (p30) The Budget Cycle
3.4.3. (p31) Problems in the Budgetary Process
3.4.4. (p32) Reforming Budgeting
3.4.5. (p33) From Scalpels to Axes: Budget Reform in the 1980s and 1990s
3.4.6. (p34) Is Budget Change Its Own Rewardf
3.5. (p35) 7. Evaluation and Policy Change
4. (p38) Part Three: Substantive Policy Issues
4.1. (p39) 8. Economic Policy
4.1.1. (p40) The Goals of Economic Policy
4.1.2. (p41) The Instruments of Economic Policy
4.2. (p42) 9. Tax Policy
4.2.1. (p43) Public Opinion and Taxation
4.2.2. (p44) Choices in Tax Policy
4.2.3. (p45) The Politics of Tax Reform
4.3. (p46) 10. Health-Care Policy
4.3.1. (p47) Problems in Health Care
4.3.2. (p48) Public Programs in Health Care
4.3.3. (p49) Health-Care Regulation
4.3.4. (p50) The Pursuit of National Health Insurance
4.4. (p51) 11. Income Maintenance Policies: Social Security and Welfare
4.4.1. (p52) Social Insurance
4.4.2. (p53) Means-Tested Programs
4.4.3. (p54) The Persistence of Poverty in the United States
4.5. (p55) 12. Educational Policy
4.5.1. (p56) Background
4.5.2. (p57) The Federal Government's Role in Education
4.5.3. (p58) Issues of Educational Policy
4.6. (p59) 13. Energy and the Environment
4.6.1. (p60) Energy: Problems and Policies
4.6.2. (p61) Energy Sources
4.6.3. (p62) Policy Options
4.6.4. (p63) Environmental Policies
4.6.5. (p64) Implementation of Environmental Controls
4.7. (p65) 14. Protective Policies: Defense and Law Enforcement
5. (p70) Part Four: Policy Analysis
5.1. (p71) 15. Cost-Benefit Analysis
5.1.1. (p72) Principles of Cost-Benefit Analysis
5.1.2. (p73) Doing Cost-Benefit Analysis
5.1.3. (p74) Criticism and Modification
5.2. (p75) 16. Ethical Analysis of Public Policy
6. (p78) Notes
7. (p79) Index

theme: Political planning; Policy sciences; Politique publique; Sciences de la politique

viii, 520 p. : 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index

2023-06-28