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Chapter 1: How does an idea's time come? -- Concepts and definitions -- A brief account of the research -- The lay of the land -- Some explanations -- A brief preview of the book Chapter 2: Participants on the inside of government -- The administration -- By contrast: Civil servants -- Capitol hill Chapter 3: Outside of government, but not just looking in -- Interest groups -- Academics, researchers, and consultants -- The media -- Elections-related participants -- Public opinion Chapter 4: Processes: Origins, rationality, incrementalism, and garbage cans -- Origins -- Comprehensive, rational decision making -- Incrementalism -- The Federal government and garbage cans Chapter 5: Problems -- Indicators -- Focusing events, crises, and symbols -- Feedback -- Why problems fade -- Budgets: A special problem -- Problem definition Chapter 6: The policy primeval soup -- Policy communities -- Communities and the soup -- Criteria for survival -- The short list of ideas Chapter 7: The political steam -- The national mood -- Organized political forces -- Government in the political steam -- Consensus building in the political stream Chapter 8: The policy window, and joining the streams -- What policy windows are and why they open -- Coupling -- Policy entrepreneurs -- Occurrence of Windows -- Spillovers Chapter 9: Wrapping things up -- Agenda setting -- Alternative specification -- Coupling and windows -- Entrepreneus Chapter 10: Some further reflections -- New case studies -- Thoughts about the modelling