Arenas of Power represents the first time that Theodore J. Lowi's model of policy analysis has been presented together with key applications and case studies drawn from his long history of scholarship-all in one place. Lowi's signature four-fold typology is shown as conceived and then as extended to include that most relevant of contemporary phenomena-"social regulatory policy." As Lowi says, when radicals add morality to the goals of public policy, the system may be turned on its head. This volume shows the evolution of the public policy arena over more than forty years of writing and thinking and presents some never before published material including helpful analytical introductions. The book concludes as Lowi looks ahead to an internationalizing U.S. political economy and the need for a global political science.

Theodore J. Lowi, Norman K. Nicholson

The Biography of Arenas of Power; Part I: Arenas of Power; chapter 1: American Business, Public Policy, Case Studies, and Political Theory; chapter 2: Four Systems of Policy, Politics, and Choice; Part II: Public Policy, History, and a Theory of Political Development; Chapter 3: Parallels of Policy and Politics; Chapter 4: American Federalism; Chapter 5: A New American State, and Four Different Roosevelts; Chapter 6: The Europeanization of America?; Part III: Bureaucracy and Arenas of Power; Chapter 7: The State in Politics; Chapter 8: The Case of Agriculture; Part IV: Economic Sectors and Collective Goods; Chapter 9: Interests, Politics, and the Variety of Group Experience; Chapter 10: Policy Choices and Political Consequences; Chapter 11: The Perils of Patronage; Part V: Outside the Box, Outside the Mainstream; Chapter 12: Prospects of Conquest; Chapter 13: New Dimensions in Policy and Politics; Chapter 14: Our Millennium