Building Coalitions, Making Policy - The Politics of the Clinton, Bush, and Obama Presidencies

Informationen zum Autor Martin A. Levin is a professor of politics at Brandeis University. His latest book is Creating Competitive Markets: The Politics of Regulatory Reform . Klappentext Combining an insider's perspective with actual case studies, the volume examines the policymaking behind such programs as; No Child Left Behind; tax cuts; Social Security privatization; Medicare prescription drug reform; education and immigration reform; environmental policy; judicial politics; national securityCovering all major areas of policymaking, Building Coalitions, Making Policy gives instructors in political science, public administration and policy, American government, and American presidential studies plenty of provocative examples for classroom debate. Zusammenfassung Focuses on backroom politics and gives readers an insider's perspective on the efforts of policymakers from three presidential administrations to get past the naysayers and effect real and lasting policy changes. This title offers an overview of policymaking during the Clinton and George W Bush administrations.

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• Authors: Martin A Levin, Martin A. Levin, Martin A. (Brandeis University) Disalvo Levin, Martin A. (EDT)/ Disalvo Levin, Martin A. Disalvo Levin
• Assisted by: Daniel Disalvo (Editor), Daniel (City College of New York) DiSalvo (Editor), DiSalvo Daniel (Editor), Martin A. Levin (Editor), Martin A. (Brandeis University) Levin (Editor), Levin Martin A. (Editor), Martin M. Shapiro (Editor), Martin M. (James W. and Isabel Coffroth Professor of Law Shapiro (Editor), Shapiro Martin M. (Editor)
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.07.2012
• EAN: 9781421405087
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-0508-7
• No. of pages: 416
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, 21st Century, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, United States of America, USA, c 1990 to c 2000, c 1990 to c 1999, Central / national / federal government, Central government