Experiencing Politics - A Legislator''s Stories of Government and Health Care

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Sommario

Foreword by Daniel M. Fox and Samuel L. Milbank
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Seeing Politics through Different Lenses

PART ONE: BASICS

1. Politics Is . . . and Debating Points
2. The Stories We Tell and the X-Men

PART TWO: THEMES

3. Landlords, Tenants, and Conflict
4. Interests and a Fiscal Crisis
5. Representation, Relationships, and Campaign Warchests

PART THREE: MODELS

6. Punctuated Equilibrium and the Fate of Hospital
Rate Setting
7. Agendas and Children’s Health Care
 
PART FOUR: ENDINGS

8. Conversations, Games, and the Death Penalty
9. Concluding Remarks

Notes
Select Bibliography
Index

Info autore

John E. McDonough is Associate Professor at the Heller School at Brandeis University and the author of Interests, Ideas, and Deregulation: The Fate of Hospital Rate Settings (1997).

Riassunto

Offers an insider's account of the interface between political science and real-life politics. This title weaves together stories of politics and policy with theoretical models. It demonstrates how politics extend beyond the public sphere into many aspects of life involving diverse values and interests.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: John E. McDonough, McDonough John E.
• Con la collaborazione di: John E. McDonough (Editore)
• Editore: University Of California Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 22.11.2000
• EAN: 9780520224117
• ISBN: 978-0-520-22411-7
• Pagine: 354
• Serie: California/Milbank Series on H; California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Politica e sua amministrazione; Medicine: general issues, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, MEDICAL / Health Policy, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, Politics and government, Health systems and services, Medicolegal issues