Subject(s): Social Conditions -- Social Policy -- Public policy -- Models of Politics -- Welfare and Health -- Education -- Policy analysis -- Models of politics : Group theory, elite theory, rationalism, incrementalism, game theory, system theory -- Institutionalism -- Civil rights -- School segregation -- national fair housing policy -- Black and white equality -- Abortion and the right to life -- Crime violence and repression -- Prisons and correctional polices -- Death punishments , racial violence -- Poverty -- Inequality and poverty -- Federal manpower programs -- Economic opportunity act -- Public service jobs -- Welfare and death -- Rationality and irrationality in welfare policy -- Punitive strategy -early welfare policy -- Preventative strategy - social security -- Medical care -- Public assistance -- Income maintenance -- Federal aid for education for struggling groups -- Informal structure of educational groups -- School finance -- Public higher education -- Population, energy and the environment -- Population explosion -- Pollution and environment -- Environmentalist -- Energy crisis -- Urban affairs -- HUD -- Mortage insurance -- Structural problems in federal urban policy -- urban renewal -- Priorities and price tags : dimensions of institutional activity -- Government expenditure -- War, depression and government activity -- Federal systems : federal grants in aid -- revenue sharing -- Budget and taxes -- Incrementalism in budget making -- Formal budgetary process -- Federal budget -- tax policy -- Defence policy -- Nuclear war -- SALT and SALT II -- System analysis of state policies -- Economic resource and public policies -- Politics, environment and policy -- Pluralism, reformism -- Policy making process -- Policy impact : finding what happens after a law is passed -- PPBS and social indicators