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Author McDonough, John E. (John Edward)

Title Experiencing politics : a legislator's stories of government and health care / John E. McDonough
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 342 pages) : illustrations
Series California/Milbank series on health and the public ; 2
California/Milbank series on health and the public ; 2.
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-332) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives.
SUBJECT Massachusetts General Court. House of Representatives
Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives fast
Subject Legislators -- Massachusetts
Political planning -- Massachusetts
Medical policy -- Massachusetts
Medical policy.
Politics, Practical.
Health Policy
Politics
politics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Legislative Branch.
Politics, Practical
Legislators
Medical policy
Political planning
SUBJECT Massachusetts
Subject Massachusetts
Form Electronic book
LC no. 99056844
ISBN 9780520925168
0520925165
058538911X
9780585389110
0520224108
9780520224100
0520224116
9780520224117
1597346071
9781597346078