Cases in Public Policy-Making

Contents: PART ONE: PROBLEMS AND AGENDAS 1. Issue Creation and Agenda Building 2. Why Some Issues are Ignored 3. Dynamics of Agenda Formation in Congress PART TWO: POLICY FORMULATION 4. The Commerce Committee in Action 5. Speculative Augmentation in Federal Air Pollution Policy-Making 6. Presidential Policy Formulation PART THREE; POLICY ADOPTION 7. Congress Adopts Medicare: The Politics of Legislative Certainty 8. Coalition Building in the U.S. House of Representatives: Agricultural Legislation 9. Policy Effects of U.S. House of Reform: Decentralization and the Capacity to Resolve Energy Issues 10. Advising the President on Enrolled Legislation: Patterns of Executive Influence PART FOUR: POLICY IMPLEMENTATION 11. Implementing Presidential Foreign Policy Decisions: Limitations and Resistance 12. The Influence of Legislatures and Appellate Courts over the Policy Implementation Process 13. Can the Cities be Trusted? the Community Development Experience PART FIVE: POLICY EVALUATION 14. Political Feasibility 15. The Bureaucratic Politics of Evaluation: A Case Study of the Department of Labor 16. Clearing the Airwaves: The Cigarette Ad Ban Revisited 17. How to Terminate a Public Policy: A Dozen Hints for the Would-Be Terminator