Agendas, alternatives, and public policies /

Kingdon, John W.

Agendas, alternatives, and public policies / John W. Kingdon ; with a new forew. by James A. Thurber. - Updated 2nd ed. - Boston : Longman, 2011. - xx, 273 p. : ill. : 24 cm. - Longman classics in political science. .

Includes a new epilogue: Health care reform in the Clinton and Obama Administrations"--Cover.
Oorspr. uitg.: Boston : Little, Brown, 1984.

How does an idea's time come? --
Participants on the inside of government --
Outside of government, but not just looking in --
Processes: origins, rationality, incrementalism, and garbage cans --
Problems --
The policy primeval soup --
The political stream --
The policy window, and joining the streams --
Wrapping things up --
Some further reflections --
Epilogue: Health care reform in the Clinton and Obama Administrations --
Appendix on methods.

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Political planning--United States.
Policy sciences.
United States--Politics and government.

JK274 / .K56 2011