KINGDON, John W <br/><br/>
Agendas, alternatives, and public policies 

 - 2 ed 
 - New York :  Haper Collins College Publishers,  c1995 
 - 253 p. 
<br/><br/> 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, reserchers, and consultants  The media  Elections-related participants  Public opinion  Chapter 4: processe: 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 stream  The national mood  Organized political forces  Government in the political stream  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  Entrepreneurs  Chapter 10: some further reflections  New case studies  Thoughts about the modelling 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Política Pública<br/>Serviço Público<br/>Política<br/> Tomada de Decisão <br/>Grupo de Pressão<br/> Burocracia<br/>Opinião Pública<br/>Poder Legislativo<br/>Estudo de Caso<br/>Programa
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Estados Unidos