These groundbreaking studies, rich with data, include chapters on political parties, '527' committees and interest groups, television ads, the 'ground war,' Congressional politics, and presidential campaigns. A must-read for its insightful and nuanced assessments of the effects of reform.
An ethnography of the development and travel of the New Zealand model of neoliberal welfare reform, this study explores the social life of policy, which is one of process, motion, and change. Different actors, including not only policy elites but also providers and recipients, engage with it in light of their own resources, knowledge, and agendas.
Argues that, after record increases in funding, the theory that failures in public services are due to the fact that we are not spending enough has been tested to destruction: the problem resides in the fact that we have now reached the limits of effective political action.
