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Autore: | McDonough John E (John Edward) |
Titolo: | Experiencing politics : a legislator's stories of government and health care / / John E. McDonough |
Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2000 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (355 p.) |
Disciplina: | 328.744/092 |
Soggetto topico: | Legislators - Massachusetts |
Political planning - Massachusetts | |
Medical policy - Massachusetts | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-332) and index. |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Experiencing politics |
ISBN: | 0-520-92516-5 |
1-59734-607-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910812486403321 |
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