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

• CHAPTER 1. How Does an Idea’s Time Come?CHAPTER 2. Participants on the Inside of GovernmentCHAPTER 3. Outside of Government, but Not Just Looking InCHAPTER 4. Processes: Origins, Rationality, Incrementalism, and Garbage CansCHAPTER 5. ProblemsCHAPTER 6. The Policy Primeval SoupCHAPTER 7. The Political StreamCHAPTER 8. The Policy Window, and Joining the StreamsCHAPTER 9. Wrapping Things UpCHAPTER 10. Some Further ReflectionsEPILOGUE. Health Care Reform in the Clinton and Obama Administrations

���Kingdon���s book is an outstanding teaching tool about the policy process. I have used it in my undergraduate and graduate public policy seminars since its first publication and found it to be fresh and interesting to the students, always generating lively discussion about how issues get on the agenda.������from James A. Thurber���s Foreword