2nd Edition
Speaking Truth to Power Art and Craft of Policy Analysis
Edited By Robbin Laird
Copyright 1987
470 Pages
by
Routledge
470 Pages
by
Routledge
472 Pages
by
Routledge
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One of the foremost experts in public policy here attempts not only to describe what public policy is, but given societal changes in the last two decades, to account for its present status. To learn from the past in order to establish public policy as a discipline in its own right, Wildavsky traces its motifs from their beginnings in the 1960s to the 1980s. Starting from the premise that there... Read more
INTRODUCTION PART 1 Resources versus Objectives CHAPTER 1 Policy Analysis Is What Information Systems Are Not CHAPTER 2 Strategic Retreat on Objectives: Learning from Failure in American Public Policy CHAPTER 3 Policy as Its Own Cause CHAPTER 4 Coordination without a Coordinator PART 2 Social Interaction versus Intellectual Cogitation CHAPTER 5 Between Planning and Politics: Intellect vs. Interaction as Analysis CHAPTER 6 A Bias Toward Federalism CHAPTER 7 Opportunity Costs and Merit Wants CHAPTER 8 Economy and Environment/Rationality and Ritual PART 3 Dogma versus Skepticism CHAPTER 9 The Self-Evaluating Organization CHAPTER 10 Skepticism and Dogma in the White House: Jimmy Carter’s Theory of Governing CHAPTER 11 Citizens as Analysts PART 4 Policy Analysis CHAPTER 12 Doing Better and Feeling Worse: The Political Pathology of Health Policy CHAPTER 13 Learning from Education: If We’re Still Stuck on the Problems, Maybe We’re Taking the Wrong Exam CHAPTER 14 A Tax by Any Other Name: The Donor-Directed Automatic CHAPTER 15 Distribution of Urban Services CHAPTER 16 Analysis as Craft
Biography
Wildavsky, Aaron
