{"product_id":"the-new-politics-of-public-policy-9780801848780","title":"The New Politics of Public Policy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis text discusses topics in modern domestic policy reform, such as health, entitlements, environment and taxation, as well as changes that have occurred in the policy-making institutions of Congress, the executive branch, the states and the courts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Leading political scientists [argue that] national politicians, far from being gridlocked, have acted with alacrity to implement fundamental and often surprising reforms in fields as diverse as education, immigration, and tax reform. In some of these areas the powerful lobbyists have been, literally, banished from the Congressional committee rooms, confounding most text books on American politics. This is an important book, which teaches the value of ideas in the post-utilitarian world of modern America. Political Studies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Of Interests and Values: The New Politics and the New Political Science\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. Adversarial Legalism and the Rights Revolution\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Separation of Powers and the Strategy of Rights: The Expansion of Special Education\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. The Politics of Rapid Legal Change: Immigration Policy in the 1980s\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Adversarial Legalism and American Government\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III. Taxing and Spending\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Policy Models and Political Change: Insights from the Passage of Tax Reform\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. The Politics of the Entitlement Process\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. Elusive Community: Democracy, Deliberation, and the Reconstruction of Health Policy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV. Regulation and Deregulation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. The New Politics of Environmental Policy\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. Policy making in the Contemporary Congress: Three Dimensions of Performance\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V. Conclusion\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10. New Politics, New Elites, Old Publics\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11. Two-Tier Politics and the Problem of Public Policy\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12. The new Politics of Public Policy\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eList of Contirbutors\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hopkins Fulfillment Service","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49944500666711,"sku":"9780801848780","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801848780.jpg?v=1738810703","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-new-politics-of-public-policy-9780801848780","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}