After Disaster: Agenda Setting, Public Policy, and Focusing Events Collected biographies is one way to make

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Hill knew that the desperation of forgotten people was driving American politics over the brink—and that we were running out of time to save ourselves from Russia’s fate

A funny re-telling of a West African folktale

When Dog’s descriptions of the Easter Bunny leave a few imaginative gaps for Cat to fill in

After Disaster: Agenda Setting, Public Policy, and Focusing Events Collected biographies is one way to makeDisasters like earthquakes are known as focusing events sudden calamities that cause both citizens and policymakers to pay more attention to a public problem and often to press for solutions. This book, the first comprehensive analysis of these dramatic events, explains how and why some public disasters change political agendas and, ultimately, public policies. Thomas A. Birkland explores important successes and failures in the policy process by