Health public policy

Health public policy Commentaire d'Understanding public policy • NEW - A much more extensive review of 'The Policymaking Process' - Now introduced earlier in the text. Helps students better understand the complex dynamics of the policy-making process. • NEW - New policy discussions - E.g., 'Is Welfare Reform Working?', 'Does Crime Pay?', 'The Fed at Work', 'Replacing the Income Tax', 'Public Policy and Hispanic Americans', 'Public Policy and Gender Equality', 'Public Policy and the Disabled', 'Federalism Revived?', 'Terrorism and Unanticipated Threats to America. Provides students with coverage of latest policy topics. • NEW - Updates of controversial discussions - E.g., 'Crime and Guns', 'The Drug War', 'RICO Versus Liberty', 'Social Security Reform', 'Health Care Access and Costs', 'Educational Reform and Parental Choice', 'Tax Policy and the Special Interests', 'Elite Gains from Trade', Mass Losses from Trade," 'Environmentalism Versus Rational Public Choice', 'Public Policy and Affirmative Action', 'How Money and Power flow to Washington', 'The Gulf War as a Case Study'. Keeps students current by dealing with the cutting-edge of issues that affect them personally. • Eight analytic models in political science - Rationalism, incrementalism, elitism, interest group conflict, institutionalism, game theory, public choice, and the familiar policy process model. Helps students understand each model and its potential contribution to the study of public policy. • Current policy issues in ten substantive areas - Using the various analytic models, describes and explains public policy in such areas as criminal justice, health and welfare, education, economic policy, taxation, international trade and immigration, environmental protection, civil rights, federalism, and national defense. Exposes students to public policy in a variety of key domestic policy areas and encourages them to utilize these conceptual models in political science to explain the causes and consequences of public policies in these areas. • A series of propositions - Each chapter concludes with a series of propositions, derived from one or more analytic models, which attempt to summarize the policies discussed. Suggests the kinds of policy explanations that can be derived from analytic models and ties the policy material back to one or another of the models. Résumé d'Understanding public policy For undergraduate-level courses in Public Policy. This leading undergraduate introduction to public policy is designed to provide students with concrete tools for not only understanding public policy in general, but for analyzing specific public policies. It focuses on what policies governments pursue, why governments pursue the policies they do, and what the consequences of these policies are. Very contemporary in perspective, it introduces eight analytical models currently used by political scientists to describe and explain political life and then, using these various analytical models singly and in combination explores specific public policies in a variety of key domestic policy areas. Sommaire d'Understanding public policy 1. Policy Analysis What Governments Do, Why They Do It, and What Difference it Makes. 2. Models of Politics Some Help in Thinking about Public Policy. 3. The Policymaking Process Decision-Making Activities. 4. Criminal Justice Rationality and Irrationality in Public Policy. 5. Health and Welfare The Search for Rational Strategies. 6. Education The Group Struggle. 7. Economic Policy Incrementalism at Work. 8. Tax Policy Battling the Special Interests. 9. International Trade and Immigration Elite-Mass Conflict. 10. Environmental Policy Externalities and Interests. 11. Civil Rights Elite and Mass Interaction. 12. American Federalism Institutional Arrangements and Public Policy. 13. Defense Policy Strategies for Serious Games. 14. Policy Evaluation Finding Out What Happens After a Law Is Passed. Index.