Summary: International Trade and Immigrationġ3.3: Politicians and Bureaucrats: Regulating the Environmentġ3.6: International Environmental Politicsġ4.2: The Development of Civil Rights Policyġ4.6: Public Policy and Affirmative Actionġ4.7: The Supreme Court and Affirmative Actionġ4.8: Public Policy and Hispanic Americans*ġ4.9: The Constitution and Gender Equalityġ4.12: Public Policy and Sexual Orientationġ5.1: National Security as a Serious Gameġ5.4: Missile Defenses: The Limits of Deterrenceġ6.3: Secrecy and Democracy: The FISA Courtġ6.5: The Department of Homeland Securityġ6.6: Fighting Terrorism with Intelligence Rationality and Irrationality in Public Policyħ.1: Rationality and Irrationality in the Welfare Stateħ.2: Defining the Problem: Poverty in Americaħ.5: The Preventive Strategy: Social Securityħ.6: Intended and Unintended Consequences of Social Securityħ.9: The Alleviative Strategy: Public AssistanceĪttempting a Rational- Comprehensive TransformationĨ.2: Incremental Strategies: Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIPĩ.1: Multiple Goals in Educational Policyĩ.5: The Federal Government’s Role in Educationġ0.1: Incremental and Nonincremental Policymakingġ0.4: Measuring the Performance of the American Economyġ0.5: Financial Crisis and Nonincremental Policy Changeġ0.10: Government Deficits and the National Debtġ1.6: Capital Gains and Dividend TaxationĬhapter 12 International Trade and Immigrationġ2.2: Changing Elite Preferences for World Tradeġ2.5: Elite–Mass Differences over Immigration
Institutional Arrangements and Policy Variationsĥ.3: Politics and Institutional Arrangementsĥ.4: American Federalism: Variations on the Themeĥ.10: States Confront Public Employee Union Powerĥ.11: State Policymaking by Initiative and Referendaĥ.12: Comparing Public Policies of the States
Some Help in Thinking About Public PolicyĢ.2: Process: Policy as Political ActivityĢ.3: Institutionalism: Policy as Institutional OutputĢ.4: Rationalism: Policy as Maximum Social GainĢ.5: Incrementalism: Policy as Variations on the PastĢ.6: Group Theory: Policy as Equilibrium in the Group StruggleĢ.7: Elite Theory: Policy as Elite PreferenceĢ.8: Public Choice Theory: Policy as Collective Decision Making by Self-Interested IndividualsĢ.9: Game Theory: Policy as Rational Choice in Competitive SituationsĢ.10: Models: How to Tell if They Are Helping or Notģ.1: The Policy Process: How Policies Are Madeģ.2: Problem Identification and Agenda Settingģ.8: Policy Legitimation: The Proximate Policymakersģ.9: The Budgetary and Appropriations Processesģ.10: Policy Implementation: The Bureaucracyįinding Out What Happens After a Law Is PassedĤ.1: Policy Evaluation: Assessing the Impact of Public PolicyĤ.3: Program Evaluation: What Governments Usually DoĤ.4: Program Evaluation: What Governments Can DoĤ.6: Federal Evaluation: The Office of Management and BudgetĤ.7: Federal Evaluation: The General Accountability OfficeĤ.8: Program Evaluation: Why It Fails So OftenĤ.9: How Bureaucrats Explain Negative FindingsĤ.10: Why Government Programs Are Seldom TerminatedĤ.11: Politics as a Substitute for Analysis What Governments Do, Why They Do It, and What Difference It Makesġ.3: What Can Be Learned from Policy Analysis?ġ.5: Policy Analysis and the Quest for Solutions to America’s Problems