Interest Groups and Health Care Reform Across the United States

This book is about the politics of interest representation. It is also about health care policy and politics in the American states. But it is first and foremost a book about interest representation. Simply put, there is a deep and profound debate among both academics and citizens about the role int...

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Main Author: Virginia Gray, David Lowery
Format: eBook
Language: Bahasa Inggris
Published: Georgetown University Press 2013
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spelling oai:lib.umy.ac.id:534192021-06-16T13:06:30ZInterest Groups and Health Care Reform Across the United StatesVirginia Gray, David Loweryhealth care policy and politics This book is about the politics of interest representation. It is also about health care policy and politics in the American states. But it is first and foremost a book about interest representation. Simply put, there is a deep and profound debate among both academics and citizens about the role interest organizations play in the public policy process (Lowery and Gray 2004b). On the one hand, the press routinely recycles stories of undue influence of narrow, selfish special interest groups, highlighting their privileged position in American politics. In academic discussions, this view is sometimes labeled the transactions perspective because it suggests that much of politics is about the purchasing of public policy. These special interests glide through the supermarket of the public policy process, placing their preferred policies in a market basket, and then proceed to the checkout counter to pay in the currency of campaign contributions, promised employment for politicians in postelectoral careers, or simply favors among overly convivial good old boys (Schattschneider 1960). From this perspective, organized interests pose a direct and material threat to democratic government.Georgetown University Press2013eBooke book 640Bahasa Inggrishttp://oaipmh-jogjalib.umy.ac.idkatalog.php?opo=lihatDetilKatalog&id=53419
institution Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta
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language Bahasa Inggris
topic health care policy and politics
spellingShingle health care policy and politics
Virginia Gray, David Lowery
Interest Groups and Health Care Reform Across the United States
description This book is about the politics of interest representation. It is also about health care policy and politics in the American states. But it is first and foremost a book about interest representation. Simply put, there is a deep and profound debate among both academics and citizens about the role interest organizations play in the public policy process (Lowery and Gray 2004b). On the one hand, the press routinely recycles stories of undue influence of narrow, selfish special interest groups, highlighting their privileged position in American politics. In academic discussions, this view is sometimes labeled the transactions perspective because it suggests that much of politics is about the purchasing of public policy. These special interests glide through the supermarket of the public policy process, placing their preferred policies in a market basket, and then proceed to the checkout counter to pay in the currency of campaign contributions, promised employment for politicians in postelectoral careers, or simply favors among overly convivial good old boys (Schattschneider 1960). From this perspective, organized interests pose a direct and material threat to democratic government.
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author Virginia Gray, David Lowery
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title Interest Groups and Health Care Reform Across the United States
title_short Interest Groups and Health Care Reform Across the United States
title_full Interest Groups and Health Care Reform Across the United States
title_fullStr Interest Groups and Health Care Reform Across the United States
title_full_unstemmed Interest Groups and Health Care Reform Across the United States
title_sort interest groups and health care reform across the united states
publisher Georgetown University Press
publishDate 2013
url http://oaipmh-jogjalib.umy.ac.idkatalog.php?opo=lihatDetilKatalog&id=53419
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