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Tables of Contents for Top Down Policymaking
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Tables and Figures
vi
Preface
ix
Policymaking from the Top Down
1
15
What Is Public Policy?
2
1
Who's on Top?
3
1
The Top-Down Policymaking Model
4
6
Feature: Elite Attitudes toward Citizen Policymaking
8
2
The Bottom-Up Policy Process Model
10
4
Feature: Citizen Attitudes toward Elite Policymaking
12
2
Democracy from the Top Down
14
2
Power, Wealth, and Policymaking
16
23
The Concentration of Economic Power
17
3
The Globalization of Economic Power
20
2
The Global Elite
22
3
Increasing Inequality in America
25
6
Feature: Deciding on Global Trade Policy
27
4
Inequality as a ``Nondecision,''
31
2
The Making of a Nondecision
33
6
Feature: Deciding to Grant Preferential Tax Treatment to Investors
34
5
The Policy Formulation Process
39
26
Top-Down Policy Formulation
39
3
The Foundations
42
5
Feature: The Ford Foundation
44
3
The Think Tanks
47
5
The Conservative Policy Network
52
5
Global Thinking: The Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission
57
4
Coordinating Elite Policy Formulation
61
4
The Leadership Selection Process
65
20
Top-Down Leadership Selection
65
3
The Costs of Getting Elected
68
1
Who Pays for Elections
69
6
Feature: A Brief History of Money in Politics
72
3
What Money Buys in Policymaking
75
5
Feature: Tobacco Legislation Goes up in Smoke
78
2
Financing the Parties
80
3
The Unlikely Prospects for Reform
83
2
The Interest Group Process
85
18
Top-Down Representation
85
3
Lobbying: Who Is Really Represented in Washington
88
2
Lawyers, Lobbyists, and Influence Peddlers
90
4
Feature: The Business Roundtable as Superlobby
91
3
PAC Power
94
2
The Cash Constituents of Congress
96
7
Feature: There's Big Money in Banking
100
3
The Opinion Making Process
103
13
Top-Down Opinion Making
104
1
The Elite Media
105
4
Feature: The Media Empires
106
3
The Media in the Opinion Making Process
109
2
The Politics of the Media
111
3
Feature: The Conflicting Policy Views of Media and Business Elites
112
2
Top-Down Media Effects
114
2
The Policy Legitimation Process
116
21
Top-Down Policy Legitimation
116
1
The Limits of Constituency Influence
117
4
Feature: Public Policy versus Popular Preferences
118
3
Congress and Legislative Legitimacy
121
1
Ambition, Professionalism, and Incumbency
122
2
Party and Leadership
124
5
The Committee System
129
3
Money and Legitimacy
132
1
Presidential Legitimation of Policy
133
2
Judicial Policy Legitimation
135
2
The Policy Implementation Process
137
21
Top-Down Policy Implementation
138
2
Feature: Mass Distrust of Government Bureaucracies
139
1
Sources of Bureaucratic Power
140
1
Bureaucratic Organization
141
2
Bureaucratic Responsiveness
143
1
Bureaucratic Regulation
144
6
Feature: The Fed: Money Is Too Important to Be Left to Democratic Governments
148
2
Bureaucratic Budget Making
150
6
Bureaucratic Adjudication
156
2
The Policy Evaluation Process
158
17
Defining Policy Evaluation
158
2
Top-Down Policy Evaluation
160
3
Feature: What the Mass Public Thinks about Government Waste
162
1
Policy Evaluation by Governments
163
2
The Continuation of Failed Programs
165
1
Policy Evaluation by Elites
166
4
Feature: How to Explain Away Failed Policies
167
3
Politics and Policy Evaluation
170
5
Feature: Evaluation and Reform of Welfare Policy
171
4
Notes
175
4
Index
179