Understanding Public Policy - Hardcover

Dye, Thomas R.

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9780136391050: Understanding Public Policy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0136391052 ISBN 13: 9780136391050

Publisher: Pearson College Div, 1997

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Focuses on what policies governments pursue, why they pursue them, and the consequences of these policies. This volume introduces nine analytical models used by political scientists and includes discussion of: international trade and immigration; crime and drug prevention policies; decline in adult crime and increase in juvenile crime; and the post-Cold War debate.

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This introduction to the models political scientists use to describe and explain political life explores what policies governments pursue, why governments pursue the policies they do, and what the consequences of these policies are.

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This widely-adopted introduction to the field focuses on what policies governments pursue, why governments pursue the policies they do, and what the consequences of these policies are. Explores the following nine analytical models in political science and the potential contribution of each of them to the study of public policy: Institutional, Process, Group, Elite, Rational, Incremental, Public choice, Systems, and Game theory. Using these various analytical models, singly and in combination, this book explores specific public policies in a variety of key domestic policy areas.

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