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Record Nr.

UNINA9910153071603321

Autore

Kingdon John W.

Titolo

Agendas, alternatives, and public policies / / John W. Kingdon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Harlow, England : , : Pearson, , 2014

ISBN

9781292053875

1292053879

9781292039206

1292039205

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ii, 235 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Always learning

Disciplina

320.973

Soggetti

Political planning - United States - Decision making - History - 20th century

United States Politics and government 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. How does an idea's time come? -- Chapter 2. Participants on the inside of government -- Chapter 3. Outside of government, but not just looking in -- Chapter 4. Processes: origins, rationality, incrementalism, and garbage cans -- Chapter 5. Problems -- Chapter 6. The policy primeval soup -- Chapter 7. The political stream -- Chapter 8. The policy window, and joining the streams -- Chapter 9. Wrapping things up -- Chapter 10. Some further reflections.

Sommario/riassunto

Kingdon’s landmark work on agenda setting and policy formation is drawn from interview conducted with people in and around the U.S. federal government, and from case studies, government documents, party platforms, press coverage, and public opinion surveys. While other works examine how policy issues are decided, Kingdon’s book was the first to consider how issues got to be issues. This enduring work attempts to answer the questions: How do subjects come to officials’ attention? How are the alternatives from which they choose generated? How is the governmental agenda set? Why does an idea’s time come when it does?   Longman is proud to announce that Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies has been reissued in this Longman Classics edition, featuring a new epilogue: Health Care



Reform from Clinton to Obama. Comparing the Clinton administration in 1993 with the Obama administration in 2009 and 2010, Kingdon analyses how agenda setting, actors, and alternatives affect public policy.