Political innovation in America: the politics of policy initiation (Record no. 161723)

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Classification number 327.73 POL
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Personal name How are public policies initiated in American politics?
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Title Political innovation in America: the politics of policy initiation
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. New Delhi
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Allied Publishers
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1986
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Extent xiv, 185 p.
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Summary, etc. How are public policies initiated in American poli tics? Do they spring fully formed from the fur rowed brow of the President? Are they the product of congressional committees? This pathbreaking book by Nelson Polsby looks for the first time at the process of political innovation. Drawing ex amples from foreign and domestic policy, Polsby examines the genesis of eight major government initiatives: the Peace Corps, the Truman Doctrine, the Council of Economic Advisers, Medicare, Com munity Action Programs, the National Science Foundation, civilian control of atomic energy, and the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.<br/><br/>As Polsby traces the development of each of these programs and policies, he finds that there are at least two kinds of innovation in the American polit ical system: policy initiations that occur swiftly, as a response to some acute need or demand, and those that incubate over a longer period of time. In the latter case, a separation of functions ap pears between specialists who invent alternatives and politicians who harvest them and adapt them to political ends.<br/><br/>Polsby has explored empirically the preconditions of political innovations, and he draws conclusions that have general applicability for the understand ing of innovation in the American political system. His characteristically witty and stimulating book opens a third branch of inquiry in political science - on a coequal footing with the study of legisla tive enactment politics and the study of policy implementation.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element United States - Foreign relations
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