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actor within a social relationship will be in a position to carry out his own will despite resistance, regardless of the basis o ...

answer to the recalcitrant committee chair who asks, ‘‘What’s in it for me?’’ During 1993 , for example, President Clinton oVere ...

some combination of material and psychic rewards from organizational activities must come forward (Frohlich, Oppenheimer, and Yo ...

groups tilted toward the liberal side of the political spectrum. Since the election of Ronald Reagan, however, conservative citi ...

And third, it becomes easier for well-organized, highly focused groups to achieve, and then defend, legislative and regulatory o ...

A Case Study: President Clinton’s Failed Health Care Initiative .............................................................. ...

over others thatXows from the ability to make credible threats. In addition, he lacked formal power over independent actors such ...

Americans were health ‘‘haves’’ rather than have-nots. They had something to lose, and reasonably enough, they weighed the prosp ...

Morgenthau,H.J. 1978 .Politics among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace, 5 th edn. New York: Knopf. Morriss,P. 2002 .Powe ...

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The Impact of Policy Studies on Institutionalist Theory ...................................................................... ...

we assume an eYcient policy process, and imputed preferences from the political process, we would conclude that citizens in Gary ...

social programs amongst American policy activists who might otherwise have fought for an expanded welfare state during the Progr ...

Urban policies that encouraged class segregation, as in Britain, ultimately encouraged political organization based on class ide ...

The Implications of Institutionalist Theory for Public Policy Studies ........................................................ ...

activities of the administration. More broadly, these political representatives should be engaged in political deliberation to p ...

are thus the route to deWning the substantive goals of public policy, and choosing the means for reaching these goals. Even Lowi ...

organized. The theory was that this would make it diYcult to mobilize local resistance to EDA plans. The consequence, however, w ...

democracy and higher levels of economic growth, lower inXation rates, more en- compassing welfare states, and greater levels of ...

these approaches consider the institutions as interdependent variables, but institu- tions are not political actors. Instead ins ...