Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies, Update Edition, with an Epilogue on Health Care'

Kingdon's landmark work on agenda setting and policy formation is drawn from interview conducted with people in and around the U.S. federal government, and from case studies, government documents, party platforms, press coverage, and public opinion surveys. While other works examine how policy issues are decided, Kingdon's book was the first to consider how issues got to be issues. This enduring work attempts to answer the questions: How do subjects come to officials' attention? How are the alternatives from which they choose generated? How is the governmental agenda set? Why does an idea's time come when it does? Longman is proud to announce that Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies has been reissued in this Longman Classics edition, featuring a new epilogue: Health Care Reform from Clinton to Obama. Comparing the Clinton administration in 1993 with the Obama administration in 2009 and 2010, Kingdon analyses how agenda setting, actors, and alternatives affect public policy.CHAPTER 1. How Does an Idea's Time Come? CHAPTER 2. Participants on the Inside of Government CHAPTER 3. Outside of Government, but Not Just Looking In CHAPTER 4. Processes: Origins, Rationality, Incrementalism, and Garbage Cans CHAPTER 5. Problems CHAPTER 6. The Policy Primeval Soup CHAPTER 7. The Political Stream CHAPTER 8. The Policy Window, and Joining the Streams CHAPTER 9. Wrapping Things Up CHAPTER 10. Some Further Reflections EPILOGUE. Health Care Reform in the Clinton and Obama Administrations