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Make a suggestion Refine your searchAgendas, alternatives, and public policies / John W. Kingdon
Title : Agendas, alternatives, and public policies Material Type: printed text Authors: John W. Kingdon, Author Edition statement: 2nd ed. Publisher: New York : Longman, Publication Date: 2003 Pagination: xx, 253 p. Layout: ill. Size: 24 cm ISBN (or other code): 978-0-321-12185-1 General note: Includes bibliographical references and index Languages : English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) Descriptors: Policy sciences
Political planning - United States
United States - Politics and governmentClass number: 320.6 Abstract: Re-issued as part of the "Longman Classics in Political Science" series, Kingdon's renowned work features a new Foreword exploring the book's historical and enduring contributions. Kingdon's landmark work on agenda setting and policy formation is now offered in a Longman Classics Edition. This enduring work of original research, drawn from interviews with people in the U.S. federal government over the course of four years, examines the questions of how issues get to be issues for legislators. The book grapples with the questions: How do subjects come to officials' attention? How are the alternatives from which they choose generated? How is the governmental agenda set? Why does an idea's time come when it does? Hailed as one of the finest books about public policy- making, and winner of the 1994 Aaron Wildavsky Award, this book's rich detail and engaging prose make it a text that both students and instructors will savor. Contents note: How does an idea's time come; Participants on the inside of government; Outside of government, but not just looking in; Processes : origins, rationality, incrementalism, and garbage cans; Problems; The policy primeval soup; The political stream; The policy window and joining streams; Wrapping things up; Some further reflections; Record link: https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=13776 Copies
Barcode Call number Media type Location Section Status 1702-000645 320.6 Kin-Age 2003 General Collection Library "Max van der Stoel" English Not for loan
Title : An introduction to the policy process : theories, concepts, and models of public policy making Material Type: printed text Authors: Thomas A. Birkland, Author Edition statement: 2nd edition Publisher: Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe Publication Date: 2005 Pagination: xxi, 297 p. Layout: ill. Size: 24 cm ISBN (or other code): 978-0-7656-1489-6 General note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-279) and index Languages : English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) Descriptors: Policy sciences
Political planning - United StatesClass number: 320.6 Abstract: "An introduction to the policy process"- now redesigned for increased user friendliness, this readable and practical introduction to the public policy process is intended for students in either traditional academic or professional programs at the undergraduate or graduate level. The author's direct writing style and extensive use of examples will also appeal to practitioners. The book offers an extensive overview of the best current thinking on the policy process, with an emphasis on accessibility and synthesis rather than novelty and abstraction. It has many features that make it equally useful as a ready reference, including myriad definitions throughout each chapter; an annotated bibliography; an introduction to web-based research, with a guide to the most important and reliable public policy research sites; and additional reading suggestions. New for this edition are chapter-at-a-glance introductions; new case studies for major chapters; new Questions-for-Discussion; and sidebars for definitions. Contents note: The Study and Practice of Public Policy; The Historical and Structural Context of Public Policy Making; Official Actors and Their Roles in Public Policy; Unofficial Actors and Their Roles in Public Policy; Agenda Setting, Power, and Interest Groups; Policies and Policy Types; Policy Design and Policy Tools; Policy Implementation and Policy Failure; Putting It All Together : Models of the Policy Process; Public Policy Research on the Web; Notes; Record link: https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=13782 Copies
Barcode Call number Media type Location Section Status 1702-000647 320.6 Bir-Int 2005 General Collection Library "Max van der Stoel" English Not for loan
Title : Public intellectuals : a study of decline Material Type: printed text Authors: Richard A. Posner Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press Publication Date: 2001 Pagination: vi, 408 p. Size: 24 cm ISBN (or other code): 978-0-674-00633-1 General note: Includes bibliographical references and index Languages : English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) Descriptors: Intellectuals - United States
Political planning - United States
Specialists - United StatesClass number: 305.5520 Abstract: Any free society thrives on public discussion, much of which is instigated by public intellectuals journalists, academics and writers who convey their ideas through a complex array of media. In this extensive, if idiosyncratic, study Posner charges that the quality of American public intellectuals' thinking and writing has steadily declined over the past seven decades. Posner admits that his subject is huge and "formless." But even after he painstakingly creates his own definitions that "demarcate a coherent albeit broad body of expressive activity," this topic still feels unwieldy. Noting that "not all intellectuals are professors... but most are," Posner casts his net wide discussing writers as disparate as Milton Friedman, Martha Nussbaum, Lani Guinier, Noam Chomsky, Gertrude Himmlefarb and Stephen Jay Gould, as well as nonacademics such as Andrea Dworkin and George Orwell. Posner, formerly a tenured academic and now a U.S. Appeals Court judge, uses a wide variety of criteria (hits on Web pages, mentions in print media and books sold) for judging the appeal and effectiveness of public intellectuals, and covers such a wide range of topics and types of intellectuals (from the "politically inflected literary criticism" of Stanley Fish and Michael Warner to the "Jeremiah school" of Christopher Lasch and Robert Bork) that his attempts at synthesis often fall short of satisfactory cohesion. While he makes many good points in charging that much public intellectual and academic writing is flawed by sloppy thinking, overt political advocacy and conflicts of interest, his conclusions and remedies which include a public Web posting of "public intellectual activities" feel impractical and, as he admits, politically dangerous. While offering the provocative beginning of a public discussion, Posner falls far short of his intellectual goals.A U.S. Court of Appeals judge and senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, Posner (An Affair of State) defines a public intellectual of which he himself is a distinguished example as one who plays the role of critical commentator for nonspecialist audiences on matters of broad public concern. After extensive theoretical and statistical analysis, he concludes that few modern public intellectuals have the requisite temperament, perspective, character, and knowledge to sustain the high level of performance demonstrated by pundits of earlier years. Furthermore, today's public intellectuals are often not prudent or even sensible in their commentaries and predictions many of which are wrong. He shows how the combination of more media outlets and more narrowly focused academics has led to a greater proliferation of inaccurate public discourse. Yet Posner's proposal for improvement a fuller disclosure of the activities and earnings of public intellectuals that would make them more accountable is not very convincing. An optional purchase for academic libraries. Record link: https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=4491 Hold
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Barcode Call number Media type Location Section Status 5702-014973 305.5520 Pos-Pub 2001 General Collection Library "Max van der Stoel" English Available
Title : Public Policymaking : an introduction Material Type: printed text Authors: James E. Anderson, Author Edition statement: 6th edition Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Publication Date: 2006 Pagination: ix, 178 p. Size: 21 cm ISBN (or other code): 978-0-618-50686-6 General note: Includes bibliographical references and index Languages : English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) Descriptors: Policy sciences
Political planning - United States
United States - Politics and governmentClass number: 320.6 Abstract: To explain the fundamentals of public policy, this best-selling text focuses on the process behind the crafting of legislation. By examining the individual steps-from identifying a problem, to agenda setting, to evaluation, revision, or termination of a policy-students are able to see how different factors influence the creation of policy. Each chapter features at least one case study to illustrate how general ideas are applied to specific policy issues. Contents note: The Study of Public Policy; The Policy-Makers and Their; Policy Formation: Problems, Agendas, and Formulation; Policy Adoption; Budgeting and Public Policy; Policy Implementation; Policy Impact, Evaluation, and Change; Record link: https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=13780 Hold
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Barcode Call number Media type Location Section Status 1702-000651 320.6 And-Pup 2008 General Collection SEEU Library Skopje English Available
Title : Top down policymaking Material Type: printed text Authors: Thomas R. Dye, Author Publisher: New York : Chatham House Publishers Publication Date: 2001 Pagination: x, 181 p. Size: 23 cm ISBN (or other code): 978-1-88911-933-5 General note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-178) and index Languages : English (eng) Original Language : English (eng) Descriptors: Campaign funds - United States
Elite (Social sciences) - United States
Political planning - United States
Pressure groups - United StatesClass number: 320.6097 Record link: https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=2290 Hold
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Barcode Call number Media type Location Section Status 5702-009878 320.60973 Dye-Top 2001 General Collection SEEU Library Skopje English Available
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