Top Down Policymaking,9781889119335

Top Down Policymaking

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ISBN13: 9781889119335
ISBN10: 1889119334
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-11-01
Publisher(s): Chatham House Pub
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Summary

In his eye-opening work, Dye explodes the myth that public policy represents the &BAD:"demands of the people&BAD:" and that the making of public policy flows upward from the masses. In reality, Dye argues, public policy in America, as in all nations, reflects the values, interests, and preferences of a governing elite. Top Down Policymaking is a close examination of the process by which the nation&BAD:rs"s elite goes about the task of making public policy. Focusing on the behind-the-scenes activities of money foundations, policy planning organizations, think tanks, political campaign contributors, special-interest groups, lobbyists, law firms, influence-peddlers, and the national news media, Dye concludes that public policy is made from the top down.

Author Biography

Thomas R. Dye is president of the Lincoln Center for Public Service, a nonprofit educational organization based in Florida. He was formerly McKenzie Professor of Government at Florida State University.

Table of Contents

Tables and Figures
vi
Preface ix
Policymaking from the Top Down
1(15)
What Is Public Policy?
2(1)
Who's on Top?
3(1)
The Top-Down Policymaking Model
4(6)
Feature: Elite Attitudes toward Citizen Policymaking
8(2)
The Bottom-Up Policy Process Model
10(4)
Feature: Citizen Attitudes toward Elite Policymaking
12(2)
Democracy from the Top Down
14(2)
Power, Wealth, and Policymaking
16(23)
The Concentration of Economic Power
17(3)
The Globalization of Economic Power
20(2)
The Global Elite
22(3)
Increasing Inequality in America
25(6)
Feature: Deciding on Global Trade Policy
27(4)
Inequality as a ``Nondecision,''
31(2)
The Making of a Nondecision
33(6)
Feature: Deciding to Grant Preferential Tax Treatment to Investors
34(5)
The Policy Formulation Process
39(26)
Top-Down Policy Formulation
39(3)
The Foundations
42(5)
Feature: The Ford Foundation
44(3)
The Think Tanks
47(5)
The Conservative Policy Network
52(5)
Global Thinking: The Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission
57(4)
Coordinating Elite Policy Formulation
61(4)
The Leadership Selection Process
65(20)
Top-Down Leadership Selection
65(3)
The Costs of Getting Elected
68(1)
Who Pays for Elections
69(6)
Feature: A Brief History of Money in Politics
72(3)
What Money Buys in Policymaking
75(5)
Feature: Tobacco Legislation Goes up in Smoke
78(2)
Financing the Parties
80(3)
The Unlikely Prospects for Reform
83(2)
The Interest Group Process
85(18)
Top-Down Representation
85(3)
Lobbying: Who Is Really Represented in Washington
88(2)
Lawyers, Lobbyists, and Influence Peddlers
90(4)
Feature: The Business Roundtable as Superlobby
91(3)
PAC Power
94(2)
The Cash Constituents of Congress
96(7)
Feature: There's Big Money in Banking
100(3)
The Opinion Making Process
103(13)
Top-Down Opinion Making
104(1)
The Elite Media
105(4)
Feature: The Media Empires
106(3)
The Media in the Opinion Making Process
109(2)
The Politics of the Media
111(3)
Feature: The Conflicting Policy Views of Media and Business Elites
112(2)
Top-Down Media Effects
114(2)
The Policy Legitimation Process
116(21)
Top-Down Policy Legitimation
116(1)
The Limits of Constituency Influence
117(4)
Feature: Public Policy versus Popular Preferences
118(3)
Congress and Legislative Legitimacy
121(1)
Ambition, Professionalism, and Incumbency
122(2)
Party and Leadership
124(5)
The Committee System
129(3)
Money and Legitimacy
132(1)
Presidential Legitimation of Policy
133(2)
Judicial Policy Legitimation
135(2)
The Policy Implementation Process
137(21)
Top-Down Policy Implementation
138(2)
Feature: Mass Distrust of Government Bureaucracies
139(1)
Sources of Bureaucratic Power
140(1)
Bureaucratic Organization
141(2)
Bureaucratic Responsiveness
143(1)
Bureaucratic Regulation
144(6)
Feature: The Fed: Money Is Too Important to Be Left to Democratic Governments
148(2)
Bureaucratic Budget Making
150(6)
Bureaucratic Adjudication
156(2)
The Policy Evaluation Process
158(17)
Defining Policy Evaluation
158(2)
Top-Down Policy Evaluation
160(3)
Feature: What the Mass Public Thinks about Government Waste
162(1)
Policy Evaluation by Governments
163(2)
The Continuation of Failed Programs
165(1)
Policy Evaluation by Elites
166(4)
Feature: How to Explain Away Failed Policies
167(3)
Politics and Policy Evaluation
170(5)
Feature: Evaluation and Reform of Welfare Policy
171(4)
Notes 175(4)
Index 179

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