| Description |
xi, 418 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
MIT studies in American politics and public policy ; 4
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MIT studies in American politics and public policy ; 4.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Electoral politics: The 1976 election: Has the crisis been adjourned? / Walter Dean Burnham -- Party democracy and democratic control / Robert T. Nakamura and Denis G. Sullivan -- Interest groups and the presidency: trends in political intermediation in America / Nelson W. Polsby -- pt. 2. Presidential leadership in American politics: Jimmy Carter's theory of governing / Aaron Wildavsky and Jack Knott -- Small program, big troubles: policy making for a small Great Society program / Thomas E. Cronin -- Ask not what our presidents are "really like"; Ask what we and our political institutions are like: a call for a politics of institutions, not men / Martin Levin -- Roots of American leadership: political style and policy consequences / Douglas Yates -- pt. 3. Legislative politics: Cooling the legislative tea / Benjamin I. Page -- Carter Congress and urban programs: first soundings / Demetrios Caraley -- State legislature as a school of capacity / William Ker Muir, Jr. -- pt. 4. Urban politics and public policy: Mayors and models: notes on the study of urban politics / Lawrence D. Brown -- Paradox of power: mayoral leadership on charter reform in Boston / Philip B. Heymann and Martha Wagner Weinberg -- pt. 5. Implementation: a theoretical perspective / Martin Rein and Francine F. Rabinovitz -- What Ronald Reagan can teach the United States about welfare reform / Frank Levy -- Reason, responsibility, and the new social regulation / Eugene Bardach -- Standing the study of public policy implementation on its head / Michael Lipsky. |
| Subject |
United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
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United States. |
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Politics and government. |
| Chronological Term |
1945-1989 |
| Indexed Term |
United States Politics, ca 1945-1977 Festschriften |
| Added Author |
Burnham, Walter Dean.
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Weinberg, Martha Wagner.
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| ISBN |
0262021323 |
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9780262021326 |
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