Bøger af Thomas R. Dye

Analyzes the way in which local municipal and school fiscal policies and the patterns of interlocal cooperative arrangements reflect the discrete circumstances of the individual suburbs.

Designed to provide students with concrete tools for not only understanding public policy in general, but for analyzing specific public policies, this widely-adopted introduction to the field focuses on what policies governments pursue, why governments pursue the policies they do, and what the consequences of these policies are.

Focussing on the Obama administration, Dye opens up the White House to reveal where the power really lies.

Explodes the myth that public policy represents the demands of the people and that the making of public policy flows upward from the masses. This title argues, public policy in America, as in all nations, reflects the values, interests, and preferences of a governing elite.