Politics and Public Policy
Strategic Actors and Policy Domains
4th Edition
Published on 30. October 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
416 pages
978-1-4522-2017-8 (ISBN)
Description
Getting beyond the traditional policy cycle discussed in most textbooks, the fully updated fourth edition of Politics and Public Policy offers a more comprehensive and realistic view of policymaking in the United States-one that looks beyond the jockeying between presidents and members of Congress, and explores the influence of corporate leaders, interest groups, bureaucrats, judges, and journalists. The book explores six distinct, yet connected, policy domains:
Boardroom Politics (decisions by business leaders and professionals);
Bureaucratic Politics (rule-making and adjudication by administrators);
Cloakroom Politics (lawmaking by legislators);
Chief Executive Politics (decision making by presidents, governors, mayors, and their advisers);
Courtroom Politics (rulings by judges); and
Living Room Politics (opinions expressed through the mass media, grassroots movements, political activists, and voters).
The authors' unique framework prepares students to evaluate the strategies of various political actors within each domain.
Boardroom Politics (decisions by business leaders and professionals);
Bureaucratic Politics (rule-making and adjudication by administrators);
Cloakroom Politics (lawmaking by legislators);
Chief Executive Politics (decision making by presidents, governors, mayors, and their advisers);
Courtroom Politics (rulings by judges); and
Living Room Politics (opinions expressed through the mass media, grassroots movements, political activists, and voters).
The authors' unique framework prepares students to evaluate the strategies of various political actors within each domain.
More details
Edition
4th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Washington
United States
Publishing group
SAGE Publications Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
606 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4522-2017-8 (9781452220178)
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Schweitzer Classification
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Previous edition
Carl E. Van Horn | William T. Gormley | Donald C. Baumer
Politics and Public Policy
Book
02/2001
1st Edition
CQ Press
€48.50
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Persons
Donald C. Baumer is professor of Government at Smith College. He is coauthor of The Politics of Unemployment (CQ Press, 1985) with Carl Van Horn, and has published several articles on employment policy and Democratic leadership in the Senate. He recently completed a three-year term as Dean for Academic Development at Smith College.
Carl E. Van Horn is professor of public policy and the director of the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University's Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. He is the author of No One Left Behind: Economic Change and the American Worker (Twentieth Century Fund, 1996) and the editor of The State of the States (CQ Press, 1989).
Carl E. Van Horn is professor of public policy and the director of the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University's Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. He is the author of No One Left Behind: Economic Change and the American Worker (Twentieth Century Fund, 1996) and the editor of The State of the States (CQ Press, 1989).
Content
American Politics and Public Policy
Political Culture, the Economy, and Public Policy
Boardroom Politics
Bureaucratic Politics
Cloakroom Politics
Chief Executive Politics
Courtroom Politics
Living Room Politics
Institutional Performance
Assessing American Public Policy
Political Culture, the Economy, and Public Policy
Boardroom Politics
Bureaucratic Politics
Cloakroom Politics
Chief Executive Politics
Courtroom Politics
Living Room Politics
Institutional Performance
Assessing American Public Policy