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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455051103321

Autore

McDonough John E

Titolo

Experiencing Politics [[electronic resource] ] : A Legislator's Stories of Government and Health Care

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2000

ISBN

0-520-92516-5

1-59734-607-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (355 p.)

Disciplina

328.744/092

Soggetti

Legislators

Massachusetts.-- General Court.-- House of Representatives

Medical policy - Massachusetts

Political planning - Massachusetts

Health Policy

Politics

Public Policy

Social Sciences

Social Control Policies

Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena

Social Control, Formal

Policy

Health Care Economics and Organizations

Sociology

Health Care

State Government - U.S

Government - U.S

Law, Politics & Government

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword by Daniel M. Fox and Samuel L. Milbank; Acknowledgments; 1. Politics Is . . . and Debating Points; 2. The Stories We Tell and the X-



Men; 3. Landlords, Tenants, and Conflict; 4. Interests and a Fiscal Crisis; 5. Representation, Relationships, and Campaign Warchests; 6. Punctuated Equilibrium and the Fate of Hospital Rate Setting; 7. Agendas and Children's Health Care; 8. Conversations, Games, and the Death Penalty; 9. Concluding Remarks; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

John E. McDonough affords a rare glimpse into the practice of state politics in this insider's account of the fascinating interface between political science and real-life politics. A member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives for thirteen years and a skilled storyteller, McDonough eloquently weaves together stories of politics and policy with engaging theoretical models in a way that illuminates both the theory and the practice.