Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies, Update Edition (With an Epilogue on Health Care), Pearson New International Edition, 2nd edition

Published by Pearson (October 3, 2013) © 2014

  • John W. Kingdon
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Title overview

  • A unique approach to agenda setting shows students not only how policy issues are decided but how issues get on the agenda.
  • "Some Further Reflections" builds on Kingdon's original work to see how his methods and conclusions have stood up over time and to and to include more case studies: The Reagan Budget in 1981, The Tax Reform Act of 1986, and Health Care Reform during the Clinton Administration in 1993.
  • The New Epilogue, "Health Care Reform from Clinton to Obama", applies the text’s framework of problems, policies, and politics to analyze the complex process of reform.
  • The "Appendix on Methods" explains the research choices the author made and helps students understand how he analyzed the data he compiled to reach meaningful conclusions.

Table of contents

CHAPTER 1. How Does an Idea’s Time Come?

 

CHAPTER 2. Participants on the Inside of Government

 

CHAPTER 3. Outside of Government, but Not Just Looking In

 

CHAPTER 4. Processes: Origins, Rationality, Incrementalism, and Garbage Cans

 

CHAPTER 5. Problems

 

CHAPTER 6. The Policy Primeval Soup

 

CHAPTER 7. The Political Stream

 

CHAPTER 8. The Policy Window, and Joining the Streams

 

CHAPTER 9. Wrapping Things Up

 

CHAPTER 10. Some Further Reflections

 

EPILOGUE.  Health Care Reform in the Clinton and Obama Administrations

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