Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies, Update Edition , with an Epilogue – Digital Instant Dowload.

Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 020500086X
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0205000869
• Author: John W. Kingdon

Updated in a new 2^nd edition, 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.

Table contents:

Chapter 1 How Does an Idea’s Time Come? 1

Chapter 2 Participants on the Inside of Government 21

Chapter 3 Outside of Government, but Not Just Looking In 45

Chapter 4 Processes: Origins, Rationality, Incrementalism, and Garbage Cans 71

Chapter 6 The Policy Primeval Soup 116

Chapter 7 The Political Stream 145

Chapter 8 The Policy Window, and Joining the Streams 165

Chapter 9 Wrapping Things Up 196

Chapter 10 Some Further Reflections 209

Index 263