Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Setting Public Policy
- 1 Explaining One Million Policy Stories
- 2 Meeting at the Margins
- Part II Motives, Opportunities, and Means of Policy Change
- 3 Motives
- 4 Opportunities
- 5 Means
- 6 How Interests and Executives Set Public Policy in Four States with Nat Rubin
- Part III Public Policy and Budgeting in the American States
- 7 Conclusion
- References
- Index
- References
References
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 April 2024
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Setting Public Policy
- 1 Explaining One Million Policy Stories
- 2 Meeting at the Margins
- Part II Motives, Opportunities, and Means of Policy Change
- 3 Motives
- 4 Opportunities
- 5 Means
- 6 How Interests and Executives Set Public Policy in Four States with Nat Rubin
- Part III Public Policy and Budgeting in the American States
- 7 Conclusion
- References
- Index
- References
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