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Experiencing politics : a legislator's stories of government and health care / John E. McDonough.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: California/Milbank series on health and the public ; 2.Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2000.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 342 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520925168
  • 0520925165
  • 058538911X
  • 9780585389110
  • 0520224108
  • 9780520224100
  • 0520224116
  • 9780520224117
  • 1597346071
  • 9781597346078
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Experiencing politics.DDC classification:
  • 328.744/092 21
LOC classification:
  • JK3166 .M34 2000eb
NLM classification:
  • 2001 J-336
  • WA 540 AM4
Online resources:
Contents:
Foreword by Daniel M. Fox and Samuel L. Milbank; Acknowledgments; 1. Politics Is ... and Debating Points; 2. The Stories We Tell and the X-Men; 3. Landlords, Tenants, and Conflict; 4. Interests and a Fiscal Crisis; 5. Representation, Relationships, and Campaign Warchests; 6. Punctuated Equilibrium and the Fate of Hospital Rate Setting; 7. Agendas and Children's Health Care; 8. Conversations, Games, and the Death Penalty; 9. Concluding Remarks; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index.
Summary: John E. McDonough affords a rare glimpse into the practice of state politics in this insider's account of the fascinating interface between political science and real-life politics. A member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives for thirteen years and a skilled storyteller, McDonough eloquently weaves together stories of politics and policy with engaging theoretical models in a way that illuminates both the theory and the practice.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-332) and index.

Print version record.

Foreword by Daniel M. Fox and Samuel L. Milbank; Acknowledgments; 1. Politics Is ... and Debating Points; 2. The Stories We Tell and the X-Men; 3. Landlords, Tenants, and Conflict; 4. Interests and a Fiscal Crisis; 5. Representation, Relationships, and Campaign Warchests; 6. Punctuated Equilibrium and the Fate of Hospital Rate Setting; 7. Agendas and Children's Health Care; 8. Conversations, Games, and the Death Penalty; 9. Concluding Remarks; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index.

John E. McDonough affords a rare glimpse into the practice of state politics in this insider's account of the fascinating interface between political science and real-life politics. A member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives for thirteen years and a skilled storyteller, McDonough eloquently weaves together stories of politics and policy with engaging theoretical models in a way that illuminates both the theory and the practice.

English.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650

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