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The New Politics of Public Policy

edited by Marc K. Landy and Martin A. Levin

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In The New Politics of Public Policy, Marc Landy and Martin Levin bring together a group of leading experts to examine the most important arenas of modern domestic policy reform—health, entitlements, environment, and taxation—as well as the changes that have taken place in the key policy-making institutions on Congress, the executive brand, the states, and the courts. Contributors include James Q. Wilson, Aaron Wildavsky, Peter Shuck, Martin Shapiro, Wilson C. McWilliams, Robert Kagan, R. Shep Melnik, James Morone, Timothy Conlan, David Beam, Maraget Wrightson, Paul Quirk, Marc Landy, and...

In The New Politics of Public Policy, Marc Landy and Martin Levin bring together a group of leading experts to examine the most important arenas of modern domestic policy reform—health, entitlements, environment, and taxation—as well as the changes that have taken place in the key policy-making institutions on Congress, the executive brand, the states, and the courts. Contributors include James Q. Wilson, Aaron Wildavsky, Peter Shuck, Martin Shapiro, Wilson C. McWilliams, Robert Kagan, R. Shep Melnik, James Morone, Timothy Conlan, David Beam, Maraget Wrightson, Paul Quirk, Marc Landy, and Martin Levin.

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All people want to talk about these days is the Republican 'revolution' in the process and substance of public policy. This collection of essays gives us a framework for assessing the novelty of the 'revolution' and, more importantly, for grounding today's policy developments in the changes in American politics and political philosophy over the past two decades.

An ambitious, provocative book that develops a powerful argument explaining how and why policy innovation is more characteristic of the American system than gridlock."—Thomas E. Mann, The Brookings Institution."In this book many of the most distinguished analysts of American public policies and processes offer fresh, challenging, and often illuminating commentaries.

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9
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360
ISBN
9780801848780
Table of Contents

Part I. Introduction
Chapter 1. Of Interests and Values: The New Politics and the New Political Science
Part II. Adversarial Legalism and the Rights Revolution
Chapter 2. Separation of Powers and the

Part I. Introduction
Chapter 1. Of Interests and Values: The New Politics and the New Political Science
Part II. Adversarial Legalism and the Rights Revolution
Chapter 2. Separation of Powers and the Strategy of Rights: The Expansion of Special Education
Chapter 3. The Politics of Rapid Legal Change: Immigration Policy in the 1980s
Chapter 4. Adversarial Legalism and American Government
Part III. Taxing and Spending
Chapter 5. Policy Models and Political Change: Insights from the Passage of Tax Reform
Chapter 6. The Politics of the Entitlement Process
Chapter 7. Elusive Community: Democracy, Deliberation, and the Reconstruction of Health Policy
Part IV. Regulation and Deregulation
Chapter 8. The New Politics of Environmental Policy
Chapter 9. Policy making in the Contemporary Congress: Three Dimensions of Performance
Part V. Conclusion
Chapter 10. New Politics, New Elites, Old Publics
Chapter 11. Two-Tier Politics and the Problem of Public Policy
Chapter 12. The new Politics of Public Policy
Notes
List of Contirbutors
Index

Author Bios
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Marc K. Landy

Marc K. Landy is professor of political science at Boston College and a senior fellow of the Gordon Public Policy Center at Brandeis University.
Martin A. Levin
Featured Contributor

Martin A. Levin

Martin A. Levin is a professor of politics at Brandeis University. His latest book is Creating Competitive Markets: The Politics of Regulatory Reform.