Policy analysis: What governments do, why they do it, and what difference it makes -- Models of politics: Some help in thinking about public policy -- The policymaking process: Decision-making activities -- Criminal justice: Rationality and irrationality in public policy -- Health and welfare: The search for rational strategies -- Education: The group struggle -- Economic policy : Incrementalism at work -- Tax policy: Battling the special interests -- International trade and immigration: Elite-mass conflict -- Environmental policy: Externalities and interests -- Civil rights: Elite and mass interaction -- American federalism: Institutional arrangements and public policy -- Defense policy strategies for serious games -- Policy evaluation: Finding out what happens after a law is passed

1. Political planning -- United States