Comparing Public Policies: Issues and Choices in Six Industrialized Countries - Softcover

Jessica Rose Adolino

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9781568024493: Comparing Public Policies: Issues and Choices in Six Industrialized Countries

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ISBN 10: 1568024495 ISBN 13: 9781568024493

Publisher: CQ Press,U.S., 2000

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How do the public policies of the United States, Japan, Germany, France, Italy, and the United Kingdom stack up against one another? Comparing Public Policies combines a conceptual discussion of policy-making with an examination of seven specific policy areas using a cross-national perspective. Adolino and Blake strike a balance between policy analysis and description as they provide students with a helpful mix of analytical tools and background information. The book begins with a concise overview of the policy process and then considers the role of cultural, economic, political, and institutional influences on policy-making. A brief chapter describes the political system of the six countries and provides necessary context. The core of the book is devoted to seven policy areas: immigration, fiscal policy, taxation, health care, social policy, education, and the environment. Each chapter shares a common framework that begins with an introduction to a policy topic, follows with its examination in each country, and concludes with an analysis of cross-national trends-past and present-in policy choices, outcomes, and dynamics. A final chapter re-examines the internationalization of public policy in industrialized countries. Adolino and Blake also consider how policymakers use this comparative perspective to guide them in their policy choices and help them pursue those choices within the political process. Reviews "Comparing Public Policies is comfortable and rewarding reading. Adolino and Blake's political analyses, clarity of writing, and numerous examples, tables, models, and theories - related with a great amount of interesting and descriptive detail - are indicative of their competent and seasoned scholarship. Readers will appreciate the essential economic, demographic, and sociopolitical issues being discussed within a consistent framework. Policymaking in the six featured countries is covered up to the present time, making Comparing Public Policies the most up-to-date text in terms of both politics and policy reforms and challenges." - Steve Mazurana, University of Northern Colorado Bio(s) Jessica R. Adolino, James Madison University Jessica R. Adolino is professor of political science at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, where she teaches courses on comparative politics, European politics, and international affairs. Her research interests primarily lie in the area of British politics. She published an extensive study of immigration and ethnic politics, Ethnic Minorities, Electoral Politics and Political Integration in Britain, in 1998. She is currently studying the political dynamics of European integration in the United Kingdom. Charles H. Blake, James Madison University Charles H. Blake is professor of political science at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, where he teaches comparative politics, comparative public policy, and research methods. His research on the political economy of upper-income and middle-income societies has been publish

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About the Author:

Jessica R. Adolino is professor of political science at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, where she teaches courses on comparative politics, European politics, and international affairs. Her research interests primarily lie in the area of British politics. She published an extensive study of immigration and ethnic politics, Ethnic Minorities, Electoral Politics and Political Integration in Britain, in 1998. She is currently studying the political dynamics of European integration in the United Kingdom. Charles H. Blake is professor of political science at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, where he teaches comparative politics, comparative public policy, and research methods. His research on the political economy of upper-income and middle-income societies has been published in a variety of journals including Comparative Political Studies, Democratization, and the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, among others. The second edition of his Politics in Latin America: The Quests for Development, Liberty, and Governance will be published in 2008.

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A textbook for an undergraduate course in comparative political science, with elementary material that can be skipped by students with previous background in it. Adolino and Blake (both political science, James Madison U., Virginia) begin by exploring the role of cultural, economic, political, and institutional influences on policy making. Then the

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