Taking Aim,9780878408290

Taking Aim

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ISBN13: 9780878408290
ISBN10: 0878408290
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-03-01
Publisher(s): Georgetown Univ Pr
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Table of Contents

List of Tables
ix
List of Figures
x
Preface xi
Taking Aim
1(14)
Conceptualizing Target Populations
3(2)
The Targeting Framework
5(4)
Studying Targeting
9(2)
Plan of the Book
11(4)
Explaining Targeted Policymaking
15(20)
Policymaking in Congress
16(6)
The Context of Policymaking
22(13)
Drug Users: Making (Some) People Accountable
35(18)
Drugs in the 1980s
36(3)
The 1988 Anti-Drug Abuse Act
39(14)
People with AIDS: What about the Children?
53(16)
AIDS in the United States
54(3)
Policymaking in an Epidemic
57(2)
The Ryan White Act
59(10)
Injection Drug Users: Out of Luck and at Risk
69(16)
Needles and AIDS
70(4)
Congress and Needle Exchange
74(11)
Target Populations in AIDS and Drug Policy
85(14)
The Case Studies
85(7)
Targeting in AIDS and Drug Policy
92(7)
Target Populations, Policymaking and Democracy
99(12)
Problems and Feasible Solutions
99(2)
When Do Populations Matter?
101(2)
Why Punishment Is Tricky
103(1)
Applicability of the Framework
104(2)
Politics, Equality, and Problem Solving
106(2)
A Conversation or a Battle?
108(3)
Bibliography 111(4)
Appendix A. Issue Attention Data Sources 115(4)
Congressional Attention to Drugs and AIDS
115(2)
Media Attention to Needle Exchange
117(2)
Appendix B. Congressional Debate Data Sources 119(12)
Congressional Debate in Drug Case
120(3)
Congressional Debate in AIDS Case
123(3)
Congressional Debate in Needle-Exchange Case
126(2)
Federal Restrictions on the Distribution of Needles and Syringes, 1988 to 1995
128(3)
Appendix C. Targeted Policies Data Sources 131(13)
Methodological Approach
131(4)
Analyzing Targeted Provisions
135(9)
Index 144

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