Speaking Truth to Power: Art and Craft of Policy Analysis

ISBN-13: 9781138533370 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 472 str.

Robbin Laird

Opis

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

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Wildavsky, Aaron