Christian Breunig, Chris Koski

Means, Motives, and Opportunities

How Executives and Interest Groups Set Public Policy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"This book uses policy stories and rigorous data analysis to illuminate the roles of executives and interest groups in shaping state budgets and their long-term trajectories. While executives have specific roles and powers in the process, interest groups ultimately provide opportunities for change in public policy"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9781009428590
• ISBN-10: 1009428594
• Artikelnr.: 68648300

Autorenporträt

Christian Breunig is Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Konstanz and Director of the German Policy Agendas project. He has received three awards from the American Political Science Association and was a policy fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University in 2022-23.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Part I. Setting Public Policy: 1. Explaining One Million Policy Stories
2. Meeting at the Margins: Interests and Governors in Public Budgeting
Part II. Motives, Opportunities, and Means of Policy Change: 3. Motives: Issues of the Moment(s)
4. Opportunities: Interest Groups and their Budgetary Issues
5. Means: How Governors Shape Budgetary Outcomes
6. How Interests and Executives Set Public Policy in Four States with Nat Rubin
Part III. Public Policy and Budgeting in the American States: 7. Conclusion: Public Government of Public Monies
Bibliography
Index.