American Public Policy An Introduction Tenth Edition by Clarke Cochran, Lawrence Mayer, Carr, Joseph Cayer, Mark McKenzie ISBN 978-1111342883 1111342881
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Author: Clarke E. Cochran, Lawrence C. Mayer, T. R. Carr, N. Joseph Cayer, Mark McKenzie ISBN Clarke E. Cochran, Lawrence C. Mayer, T. R. C ISBN arr, N. Joseph Cayer, Mark McKenzie
Best-selling AMERICAN PUBLIC POLICY: AN INTRODUCTION engages student interest through its unique emphasis on specific, substantive issues of public policy. This text draws students into American public policies by presenting their historical context, prompting students to evaluate and discuss possible alternatives. The discussion kindled by AMERICAN PUBLIC POLICY: AN INTRODUCTION helps make public policy personal as students apply their knowledge to real-life policies. This new edition includes updated and expanded coverage on key policy issues: immigration, global climate change, health care reform, gay rights, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The authors present policy material step-by-step, building a picture of the existing policy that students can use to evaluate alternatives.
Table of contents:
Chapter 1 Public Policy: An Introduction
Studying Public Policy
What Constitutes Public Policy?
Why Study Public Policy?
Reasons for the Growing Pervasiveness of Public Policy
Policy Impact: The Frequent Failure of Public Policies to Achieve Their Goals
Defining Major Concepts
Models of the Policy Process
Policy Analysis
Stages of Policy Development
Aspects of Policy Evaluation
Approaches Taken by this Book
Chapter Plan
National Focus
Comparative Information
Endnotes
Resources
Books
Websites
Chapter 2
Contexts of Public Policy
The Institutional Context
Intergovernmental Relations
Participants in Intergovernmental Relations
Contemporary Intergovernmental Realities
Forms of Intergovernmental Interaction
Changing Intergovernmental Relations
Whither Federalism?
The Economic Context
The Demographic Context
The Ideological Context
The Cultural Context
Endnotes
Resources
Books
Websites
Chapter 3
The Economy: Changing Government-Business Relationships
Issue Background: Key Concepts in Economics
The Free-Enterprise System
History of Government’s Role
Inflation and Recession
Microeconomic Approaches
Contemporary Policy: Case Studies in Economic Intervention
The Federal Trade Commission: Traditional Economic
Regulation
Community Revitalization Issues: Merging Social
and Economic Concerns
International Trade
Policy Evaluation: Encouraging Competition or
Discouraging Innovation?
Deregulation
Free Trade
Assistance to Business
Effects of Regulation
Changes in Regulation
Reforming the Relationship of Government and the Economy
Future Alternatives
Endnotes
Resources
Books
Websites
Chapter 4 Economic Issues: Taxing, Spending, and Budgeting
Issue Background: Concepts and Issues
Economic Policy Obstacles
Macroeconomic Approaches
Contemporary Policy: Approaches to Managing the Economy
Traditional Economic Theory
Supply-Side Economics
Budget Deficits
Tax Reform
Policy Evaluation: Success or Failure?
Inflation and Growth
Fiscal Policy
Federal Revenues and Spending
Fiscal Policy Evaluation
Defense Spending
Future Alternatives: Spending, Taxes, the Deficit, and Economic Stimulus Programs
Taxes
Other Future Issues
Endnotes
Resources
Books
Websites
Chapter 5 Energy and Environmental Policies: Policy Instability
Energy Policy Issue Background: Complacency and Crisis
Traditional Energy Policy
Chapter 6 Crime and Criminal Justice: Dilemmas of Social Control
Issue Background: The Growth and Decline of Crime
The Extent of Crime
Reasons for Crime
Issues in Equal Protection and Government Response to Crime
Contemporary Policy: Constitutional Rights and the
Deterrence of Crime
Confessions and the Right to Counsel
The Exclusionary Rule and Search and Seizure
Capital Punishment
Policy Evaluation: Flaws in the Criminal Justice System
Confessions and the Right to Counsel
The Exclusionary Rule and Search and Seizure
Capital Punishment
Conclusion: Crime and Criminal Procedure
Future Altematives: Policy Options for Reducing Crime
Drug-Related Crimes
Violence against Women
Crimes of Violence and Gun Control
Decriminalization and Deterrence
Strengthening the Police
Penal Reform, Sentencing, and Recidivism
Zero Tolerance for Petty Street Crime
Limiting the Alternatives to Punishment
Endnotes
Resources
Books
Websites
Chapter 7
Poverty and Social Welfare Policy
Issue Background: Poverty
Defining Poverty
How Many Poor?
Who Are the Poor?
What Causes Poverty?
The Welfare State
The U.S. in Comparative Perspective
Contemporary Policy: Social Insurance and Social Assistance Programs
Social Insurance
Cash Transfer Programs
In-Kind Benefits
What’s Missing
Policy Evaluation: Do Social Welfare Policies
Reduce Poverty?
Accomplishments and Criticisms of Social Insurance
Accomplishments and Criticisms of Social Assistance
Future Alternatives: Social Welfare Policy Change
Children and Poverty
Employment Issues
Conclusions
Endnotes
Resources
Books
Websites
Chapter 8 Health Care: Historic Change?
Issue Background: The Health Care System and Its Discontents
The Structure of American Health Care
Delivering and Paying for Health Care
Other Nations
How Healthy Is America?
Inequities in Access to Health Care
High Cost
Quality of Health Care
Contemporary Policy: Health Care for the Poor and Aged
Medicare
Medicaid
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State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)
Other Federal Programs
Policy Evaluation: Health Care at the Crossroads
Medicare and Medicaid
Questioning the Health Care System
Future Alternatives: Reshaping a Complex System
Reform and Medicare
Reform and Access to Insurance
Delivery System Reform and the Quality of Health Care
Cost Control Beyond Reform
Reform and the Beginning and End of Life
Reform and Long-Term Care
Health Care Politics in the Future
Endnotes
Resources
Books
Websites
Chapter 9 Education: Conflict in Policy Direction
Issue Background: Historical Perspectives and the Onset
of Federal Involvement in Education
The Tradition of Free Public Education
The Tradition of Local Control
An Emerging Role for State and Federal Governments
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965:
Expanding the Federal Policy Role
The Federal Role in Higher Education
Contemporary Policy: Remedying Social Inequality Through Education
The Issue of Unequal Financial Resources
Equality in Education
Educational Inequality Outside the United States
Policy Evaluation: Educational Quality in the United States
Concern over Poor Student Achievement
Questioning Teacher Competency
Merit Pay and Master Teachers
Bilingual Education
Multiculturalism
Future Alternatives: Community Control, Private Schools, a Changing Federal Role, and Conflicting Priorities
Community Control and Decentralization
The Issue of Private Schools
Crisis in Education
Changing Priorities in Federal Education Policy
Education Policy Priorities in the Twenty-First Century
Education Policy Initiatives of President Obama
Unresolved Education Issues: Teachers and Curriculum
Unresolved Education Issues: Structural Questions
Issues in Higher Education
Endnotes
Resources
Books
Websites
Chapter 10 Legal and Social Equality: The Struggle Against Oppression and Bigotry
Issue Background: The Idea of Equality
Equality under Law
Equality of Opportunity
Equality of Material Well-Being
The Civil Rights Movement and Equality
Contemporary Policy: Strengthening Constitutional Guarantees of Equality
The Erosion of the Fourteenth Amendment
Ending Segregation
Enforcing Integration
The Struggle for Racial Balance in Employment and Higher
Education
Equality and the Women’s Movement
Bias against Homosexuals, the Handicapped, and Native
Americans
Policy Evaluation: The Drive for Proportional Equality
Busing for Racial Balance
Retreat on Racial Preference Programs: Weber and Title V
Recent Assaults on Racial Preference
Future Altematives: The Changing Conception of Equality
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The Debate over Affirmative Action
Race and Equality
Endnotes
Resources
Books
Websites
Chapter 11 Immigration Policy: The Barely Open Door
Issue Background: From an Open Door to Increasing Limits
The Open Door
Use of Quotas
Transition to a Preference System
Illegal Immigration
Contemporary Policy: Responding to Changing Immigration Dynamics
Policy Evaluation: Contrasting Perceptions
Current Policy Concerns
Economic Concerns
Impact on Public Services
Quality of Life
Future Alternatives: Openness or Restriction?
Endnotes
Resources
Books
Websites
Chapter 12 Foreign and Defense Policy: Security and Interests in a Dangerous World
Issue Background: Competing Approaches to Foreign Policy
Realism or Classical Diplomacy
The Balance of Power
The American Style in Foreign Policy: Wilsonian Idealism
Universal Justice and the Nuremberg Principle
Diplomacy, Force, and American Optimism
Collective Security and Institutional Solutions to
World Conflict
Policy Past and Present: Cold War, Containment, and After
The Failure of Containment in Vietnam
The Search for a Comprehensive Peace in Palestine
Policy Evaluation: Realism Versus Idealism in the Middle East
The Emerging Threat of Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions
Oil, U.S. Foreign Policy, and the Middle East
Palestinian Nationalism
American Options in the Area: A Ray of Hope Dashed
Future Alternatives: Responding to Terrorism and Nuclear Proliferation
Defining Terrorism
Options for Confronting Terror
The War in Iraq and the Struggle with Terror
Prewar Intelligence on WMDs and on a Connection Between Iraq and Terrorism
Rogue Regimes and WMDs
Future Issues on the Foreign Policy Horizon:
Globalization and National Interests
Endnotes
Resources
Books
Websites
Chapter 13 Private Morality and Public Policy: Moral Values, the Constitution, and the Open Society
The Idea of the Open Society
The Neo-Populism Emergence on the Right and Its Challenge to the Open Society
Challenges to the Open Society on the Left
The Open Society and Tolerance of Diverse Ideas
Community and Family Values versus the Open Society
The Role of the Court and the Presumption of Constitutionality
Abortion, Birth Control, and the Law
End-of-Life Care, Assisted Suicide, and the Preservation of Life
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