The Practice of American Public PolicymakingDesigned for upper-level and professional courses, this text is a state-of-the-art introduction to the public policymaking process that gives equal attention to issues of policy implementation and public governance. It uses an innovative systems approach, integrating the activities, actors, tools, and techniques of policymaking, to provide a comprehensive framework for policy design and analysis. The book is practice-oriented, with a focus on the ways that policymakers at all levels employ the standard "technologies" of governance - authority, agency, program, rule, contract, and budget - to design policy outputs and achieve policy outcomes. Through extensive use of graphics, the text makes concepts easy to grasp for a generation of students accustomed to the visual presentation of ideas. Case studies illustrate the tools and techniques discussed, and key terms, questions for discussion, and suggested readings round out each chapter. |
Contents
Budget | |
2 Budget Process Overview | |
7 Cascading Levels of Performance Measurement | |
Results | |
Outputs | |
2 U S Government Classification of Target Groups | |
Suggested Readings | |
Outcomes | |
Problems | |
List of MiniCases | |
Politics and Policy Entrepreneurs | |
Suggested Readings | |
Access Lobbying and Public Opinion | |
Agenda Setting | |
2 Bureaucratic Agencies and their Environment | |
Production | |
Policy Technologies and Maps | |
Authority | |
1 Sources of Public Authority | |
Advantages and Disadvantages | |
Agency | |
4 A Typology of Policy Production Agencies | |
Agency | |
Program | |
Adapted from Matthew | |
7 Program Delivery Strategies | |
10 Cascading Objectives and Performance Measurement | |
12 Evolution of Policy Programs | |
Rules | |
Suggested Readings | |
Contract | |
5 Policy Outcomes and Spillover Effects | |
8 Program Outcomes | |
Outcomes | |
10 Relationships Between Eligible and Recipient Beneficiaries Adapted | |
11 Standards for Evaluating Policy Outcomes Adapted from Evert | |
Context and Content | |
An Overview of Policy Sectors | |
1 Anatomy of Nonprofit Organizations | |
Suggested Readings | |
The Government Sector | |
2 Intergovernmental Relationships in American Federalism | |
Market Civil and Private Sectors | |
Questions for Discussion | |
Policies and Policymaking | |
A New Policy Domain | |
7 Venues for Public Policymaking | |
10 A Path Analysis of Policymaking in Response to Wall Street | |
11 A Path Analysis of the Smallpox Vaccination Program | |
16 The Cyclical Nature of Policy Change | |
Key Terms | |
Conclusions | |
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