理解公共政策

PREFACE1 POLICY ANALYSIS: What Governments Do,Why They Do It, and What Difference It Makes　What Is Public Policy? Why Study Public Policy? What Can Be Learned From Policy Analysis? Policy Analysis and Policy Advocacy Policy Analysis and the Quest for Solutions to America's Problems Policy Analysis as Art and Craft Note Biblicography Web Sites2 MODELS OF POLITICS: Some Help in Thinking about Public Policy Models for Policy Anasysis Institutionalism: Policy as Institutional Output Process: Policy as Political Activity

PREFACE1 POLICY ANALYSIS: What Governments Do,Why They Do It, and What Difference It Makes　What Is Public Policy? Why Study Public Policy? What Can Be Learned From Policy Analysis? Policy Analysis and Policy Advocacy Policy Analysis and the Quest for Solutions to America's Problems Policy Analysis as Art and Craft Note Biblicography Web Sites2 MODELS OF POLITICS: Some Help in Thinking about Public Policy Models for Policy Anasysis Institutionalism: Policy as Institutional Output Process: Policy as Political Activity Rationalism: Policy as Maximum Social Gain Incrementalism: Policy as Variations on the Past Group Theory: Policy as Group Equilibrium Wlte Theory: Policy as Elite Preference Public Choice Theory: Policy as Collective Decision Game Theory: Policy as Rational Choice in Competitive Situations Models: How to Tell if They are Helping or Not Notes Bibliography Web Sites 3 THE POLICYMAKING PROCESS:Decision-Making Activities The Policy Process: How Policies Are Made……4 CRIMINAL JUSTICE: Rationality and Irrationality in Public Policy5 HEALTH AND WELFARE: TheSearch for Rational Strategies6 EDUCATION: The Group Struggle7 ECONOMIC POLICY: Incrementalism at Work8 TAX POLICY: Battling the Special Interests9 INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND IMMIGRATION:Elite-Mass Conflict10 ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: Externalities and Interests11 CIVIL RIGHTS: Elite and Mass Interaction12 AMERICAN FEDERALISM: Institutional Arrangements and Public Policy13 DEFENSE POLICY: Strategies for Serious Games14 HOMELAND SECURITY: Terrorism and Nondeterrable Threats15 POLICY EVALUATION: Finding Out What Happens after a Law is PassedINDEX

这是一本公共政策领域的优秀教科书，初版于1972年，不断修订再版，现在是2005年第十一版。它哺育了整整一代美国大学生，自译介到中国后（目前只有第十版的中译本，第十一版的中译本正在由北京大学出版社组织翻译出版），影响巨大，广为引用。 作为公共政策领域的导论性教科书，它不仅为读者提供了理解一般公共政策的具体途径，而且为他们分析具体领域的公共政策提供了明蜥的工具。它集中分析的是“政府推行的是什么样的政策”、“政府为什么要推行这样的政策”以及“这些政策的后果是什么”等问题。它提出了八种政治科学家用于分析和解释政治生活的分析模式，并充分运用这些不同模式对一些关键政策领域的具体公共政策进行了分析和解释。 第十一版增加了对“9·11”之后的美国公共政策新课题的分析，包括修订了有关“国防政策”的一章，增加“国土安全：恐怖主义和难以防备的威胁”一章。另外还修订了有关“教育政策”、“打击犯罪”、“税收政策 ”等方面的内容，并对涉及“全球经济”、“国家移民政策”、“犯罪与枪支”、“反毒品战争”、“替代所得税”、“全球变温问题”、“公共政策与拉美裔美国人”以及“导弹防御”的内容进行了扩充。