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Rhetoric and Reality : Presidential Commissions and the Making of Public Policy.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Milton :
Routledge,
1979.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface; 1. The President and Public Policy; Rhetoric and Reality; Public Policy-How Public Is It?; Policy Action and Inaction; How Is Policy Made?; Who Makes Policy?; Crisis and Creativity; Presidential Commissions; The View from the Top; 2. The Organizational Dynamics of Policy Commissions; Demands; Creating Commissions; Issue Areas; Temporal Variations in Demand; Information Costs; Commission Staff; Consultants; Research; Actual Information Costs; Decision Costs; Summary; 3. Policy Elites; Who's Who
- Who's Who among CommissionersWho Else?; 4. Policy Outputs: Commission Recommendations; Policy Alternatives; Alternatives Recommended; Political Manipulability: The Possible and the Practical; 5. Policy Results: Presidential Action and Congressional Response; The Next Step; Recommendations and Responses; Nonresponse; Complexity; Demands; Information Costs; Decision Costs; Policy Outputs and Policy Results; A Final Word on Complexity; 6. Two Models: One of Rhetoric and One of Reality; Rhetoric; Reality; Information Costs and Policy Type; Information Costs and Presidential Response
- Policy Type and Presidential ResponseAnother View from the Top; The Demise of Government by Commission; 7. Toward More-Public Rhetoric; The Revival of Government and Commissions; One of the First Carter Commissions; Some Positive Signs; A Final Bow to Reality; Appendix A: Presidential Advisory Commissions; Appendix B: Coding Procedure; Notes; Bibliography; Index