Public Policy : The Essential Readings

by Theodoulou, Stella Z.; Cahn, Matthew A.

• ISBN13: 9780130592552
• ISBN10: 0130592552
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-10-12
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

This collection of 46 key classic and contemporary readings explores the environment within which public policy is made and the actual policy-making process. This book includes readings that are among the most frequently cited or that highlight the link between theory and practice particularly well. It groups readings into four major sections which parallel both the majority of policy texts and the way many courses are designed: the nature of public policy - including theories and models of public policy making, the making of policy - the sequential stages that policies pass through, the players - both institutional and non-institutional, policy making as a game - the rules, strategies, and culture of the policy game. Each section begins with an overview essay.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
PART ONE The Nature of Public Policy What is public policy, who makes it, and why study it?	1	(85)
1. The Contemporary Language of Public Policy: A Starting Point	1	(9)
Stella Z. Theodoulou
2. Political Science and Public Policy	10	(5)
Paul A. Sabatier
3. Distribution, Regulation, Redistribution: The Functions of Government	15	(11)
Theodore J. Lowi
4. Symbols and Political Quiescence	26	(8)
Murray Edelman
5. The Analysis of Public Policy: A Search for Theories and Roles	34	(4)
Robert H. Salisbury
6. With the Consent of All	38	(8)
Robert A. Dahl
7. Issue Networks and the Executive Establishment	46	(12)
Hugh Heclo
8. Imperfect Competition	58	(8)
Ralph Miliband
9. Group Politics and Representative Democracy	66	(6)
David B. Truman
10. The Power Elite	72	(14)
C. Wright Mills
PART TWO Making Public Policy The process, structure, and context of policy making	86	(115)
11. How Public Policy Is Made	86	(10)
Stella Z. Theodoulou
12. Issues and Agendas	96	(9)
Roger W. Cobb
Charles D. Elder
13. Agenda Setting	105	(8)
John W. Kingdon
14. The Science of "Muddling Through"	113	(15)
Charles E. Lindblom
15. Nonincremental Policy Making	128	(9)
Paul R. Schulman
16. The Implementation Game	137	(3)
Eugene Bardach
17. Implementation as Evolution	140	(13)
Giandomenico Majone
Aaron Wildavsky
18. A Conceptual Framework of the Implementation Process	153	(20)
Paul A. Sabatier
Daniel A. Mazmanian
19. The Role of Evaluation in Public Policy	173	(8)
David Nachmias
20. Trends in Policy Analysis	181	(4)
Stuart Nagel
21. The Politics of Public Budgets	185	(16)
Irene S. Rubin
PART THREE The Players Institutional and noninstitutional actors	201	(132)
22. The Players: Institutional and Noninstitutional Actors in the Policy Process	201	(11)
Matthew A. Cahn
23. Congress: Keystone of the Washington Establishment	212	(8)
Morris Fiorina
24. Congress: The Electoral Connection	220	(4)
David Mayhew
25. The Presidential Policy Stream	224	(13)
Paul Light
26. The Two Presidencies	237	(14)
Aaron Wildavsky
27. The Rise of the Bureaucratic State	251	(8)
James Q. Wilson
28. Bureaucracy	259	(6)
Max Weber
29. Regulation: Politics, Bureaucracy, and Economics	265	(12)
Kenneth J. Meier
30. Appellate Courts as Policy Makers	277	(11)
Lawrence Baum
31. Towards an Imperial Judiciary?	288	(7)
Nathan Glazer
32. News That Matters	295	(10)
Shanto Iyengar
Donald Kinder
33. Processing the News: How People Tame the Information Tide	305	(7)
Doris Graber
34. Parties, the Government, and the Policy Process	312	(5)
Samuel J. Eldersveld
35. The Advocacy Explosion	317	(7)
Jeffrey M. Berry
36. The Consultant Corps	324	(9)
Larry J. Sabato
PART FOUR The Policy Game Rules, strategies, culture, and resources	333
37. Playing the Policy Game	333	(9)
Matthew A. Cahn
38. An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution	342	(8)
Charles Beard
39. The Federalist Papers	350	(8)
Alexander Hamilton
James Madison
John Jay
40. Political Repression in the United States	358	(10)
Michael Rogin
41. Democracy and Capitalism	368	(4)
Samuel Bowles
Herbert Gintis
42. Capitalism and Freedom	372	(4)
Milton Friedman
43. Presidential Power	376	(5)
Richard Neustadt
44. Constructing the Political Spectacle	381	(8)
Murray Edelman
45. A Preface to Economic Democracy	389	(4)
Robert A. Dahl
46. Who Rules America Now?	393
G. William Domhoff