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After Disaster - Agenda Setting, Public Policy, And Focusing Events

by Thomas A. Birkland

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 Disasters like earthquakes are known as focusing events - sudden calamities that cause both citizens and policymakers to pay more attention to a public problem and often to press for solutions. This book explains how and why some public disasters change political agendas and, ultimately, public policies.
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Pathways Of Power - The Dynamics Of National Policymaking

by David R. Beam, Paul L. Posner e Timothy J. Conlan

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 Provides a framework that integrates the roles of political interests and policy ideals in the contemporary policy process. This book argues that the policy process can be understood as a set of four distinctive pathways of policymaking - pluralist, partisan, expert, and symbolic.
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Pathways Of Power - The Dynamics Of National Policymaking

by David R. Beam, Paul L. Posner e Timothy J. Conlan

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 Bridging the gap between textbook models of how public policy should work, and how the process actually works in contemporary Washington, this book provides a framework that integrates the roles of political interests and policy ideals in the contemporary policy process.
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The Education Mayor - Improving America'S Schools

by Dorothea Anagnostopoulos, Francis X. Shen, Kenneth K. Wong e Stacey Rutledge

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 In 2002, the No Child Left Behind Act rocked America's schools with new initiatives for results-based accountability. This work takes a critical look at mayoral control of urban school districts, beginning with Boston's schools in 1992 and examining more than 100 school districts in 40 states.
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Oil And Wilderness In Alaska - Natural Resources, Environmental Protection, And National Policy Dynamics

by George J. Busenberg

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 Colliding environmental and development interests have shaped national policy reforms supporting both oil development and environmental protection in Alaska. This book illuminates the processes and consequences of these reforms at the state, national, and international levels.
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The Government Taketh Away - The Politics Of Pain In The United States And Canada

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 Democratic government is about making choices. Sometimes those choices involve the distribution of benefits. This work examines the repercussions of unpopular government decisions in Canada and the USA, the two great democratic nations of North America.
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Lessons Of Disaster - Policy Change After Catastrophic Events

by Thomas A. Birkland

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 To determine when and how a catastrophic event serves as a catalyst for true policy change, this work examines four categories of disasters: aviation security, homeland security, earthquakes, and hurricanes. It explores lessons learned from each, focusing on three types of policy change.
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Investing In The Disadvantaged - Assessing The Benefits And Costs Of Social Policies

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 With budgets squeezed at every level of government, cost-benefit analysis (CBA) holds outstanding potential for assessing the efficiency of many programs. This book addresses the application of CBA to social policy. It discusses the applicability of CBA to actual programs, describing both proven and promising examples.
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Custodians Of Place - Governing The Growth And Development Of Cities

by Max Neiman e Paul G. Lewis

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 Provides a theoretical framework that accounts for how different types of cities arrive at decisions about residential growth and economic development.
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National Health Insurance In The United States And Canada - Race, Territory, And The Roots Of Difference

by Gerard W. Boychuk

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 After World War II, the US and Canada struck out on divergent paths to public health insurance. This work probes the historical development of health care in each country, honing in on the social and political aspects of each country, and the politics of race in the US and territorial politics in Canada.
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Brussels Versus The Beltway - Advocacy In The United States And The European Union

by Christine Mahoney

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 Presents the study of lobbying strategies and outcomes in the United States and the European Union. This book challenges the stereotypes that attribute any differences between the two systems to cultural ones - the American, a partisan and combative approach, and the European, a consensus-based one.
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Branching Out, Digging In - Environmental Advocacy And Agenda Setting

by Sarah B. Pralle

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 Looks at why some environmental conflicts expand to attract a lot of attention and participation, while others generate little interest or action. This title examines the expansion and containment of political conflict around forest policies in the United States and Canada.
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School'S In - Federalism And The National Education Agenda

by Paul Manna

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 Based on analyses of public laws, presidential speeches, congressional testimony, political advertising, and personal interviews, this title draws on concepts of federalism and agenda-setting to offer a view of the growing federal role in education policy. It also provides insights about the nature of federalism in the United States.
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Globalization And The Politics Of Pay - Policy Choices In The American States

by Susan B. Hansen

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 Examines the economic, political, and social causes and consequences of declining wages in the United States. This title presents a comprehensive analysis of the many factors affecting labor costs and concludes that many of them result from choices made by the states themselves through the laws and policies they enact.
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Ten Thousand Democracies - Politics And Public Opinion In America'S School Districts

by Michael B. Berkman

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 Begins with educational reforms from the Progressive era in the late 19th and early 20th centuries through the civil rights movement and ending with Pennsylvania's 2004 tax relief measure. This title explores what factors determine education spending levels in school districts.
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Interest Groups And Health Care Reform Across The United States

by Virginia Gray

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 Universal health care was on the national political agenda for nearly a hundred years until a comprehensive health care reform bill supported by President Obama passed in 2010. This title assesses the impact of interest groups to determine if they are capable of shaping policy in their own interests or whether they influence policy at the margins.
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Transatlantic Policymaking In An Age Of Austerity - Diversity And Drift

by Flor Aarts

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 Integrates the study of politics and public policy across a spectrum of regulatory and social welfare policies in the United States and several nations of Western Europe. This title distills the prominent issues, politics, and roles played by governmental institutions into an understanding of the policymaking in and among transatlantic nations.
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Competitive Interests - Competition And Compromise In American Interest Group Politics

by Thomas T. Holyoke

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 Offers a model of strategic lobbying that shows why some group lobbyists feel compelled to fight stronger, wealthier groups even when they know they will lose. This title offers answers about what kinds of policies are more likely to lead to intense competition and what kinds of interest groups have an advantage in protracted conflicts.
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Managing The Fiscal Metropolis - The Financial Policies, Practices, And Health Of Suburban Municipalities

by Rebecca M. Hendrick

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 A comprehensive analysis of the financial condition, management, and policy making of local governments in a metropolitan region that offers local governments currently dealing with the Great Recession a better understanding of what affects them financially and how to operate with less revenue.
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How Governments Privatize - The Politics Of Divestment In The United States And Germany

by Mark Cassell

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 A study of two successful divestment agencies - the US Resolution Trust Corporation and the German Treuhandanstalt - that presents a complex understanding of the two agencies' performance in privatizing hundreds of billions of dollars of assets following two very different crises, the savings and loan debacle in the US and unification in Germany.
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The Politics Of Ideas And The Spread Of Enterprise Zones

by Karen Mossberger

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 Explores how policy ideas are spread - or diffused - in an age in which policymaking has become increasingly complex and specialized. Using the concept of enterprise zones as a case study in policy diffusion, this book compares the process of their adoption in Virginia, Indiana, Michigan, New York, and Massachusetts over a twelve-year period.
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Budgeting Entitlements - The Politics Of Food Stamps

by Ronald F. King

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 As budgetary concerns have come to dominate Congressional action, the design and implementation of welfare programs have come under greater scrutiny. This book focuses on the food stamp program to examine how the integration of welfare and budgeting has affected both politics and people.
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Green Politics And Global Trade - Nafta And The Future Of Environmental Politics

by John J. Audley

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 Environmental groups for the first time formalized their role in shaping US and international trade policy during their involvement in NAFTA negotiations. Examining the role that environmental politics play in trade policy, this volume offers fresh insights into the political effectiveness of environmental organizations.
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Improving Governance - A New Logic For Empirical Research

by Carolyn J. Heinrich, Carolyn J. Hill e Laurence E., Jr. Lynn

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 Proposing a framework for research based on the premise that any particular governance arrangement is embedded in a wider social, fiscal, and political context, this title argues that theory-based empirical research, when well conceived and executed, can be a primary source of fundamental, durable knowledge about governance and policy management.
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