Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies with an Epilogue on Health Care, Updated Pearson New International Edition (2nd Edition)
John W. KingdonSinopsis ebook
Kingdon s landmark work on agenda setting and policy formation is drawn from interview conducted with people in and around the U S federal government and from case studies government documents party platforms press coverage and public opinion surveys While other works examine how policy issues are decided Kingdon s book was the first to consider how issues got to be issues This enduring work attempts to answer 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 Longman is proud to announce that Agendas Alternatives and Public Policies has been reissued in this Longman Classics edition featuring a new epilogue Health Care Reform from Clinton to Obama Comparing the Clinton administration in 1993 with the Obama administration in 2009 and 2010 Kingdon analyses how agenda setting actors and alternatives affect public policy