Experiencing politics [[electronic resource] ] : a legislator's stories of government and health care

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910780077203321
• Autore: McDonough John E
• 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.)
• Collana: California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public
• 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; Social Control, Formal; Policy; Health Care Economics and Organizations; Sociology; Health Care; State Government - U.S; Government - U.S; Law, Politics & Government
• 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.