The National Planning Idea in U.S. Public Policy: Five Alternative Approaches

ISBN-13: 9780367309701 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 359 str.

David E. Wilson

Opis

This book explores the forgotten history of national planning efforts in U.S. public policy, identifying and comparing five alternative approaches to contemporary national planning and then using these approaches to assess the events of 1973-1976.

Spis treści

Preface -- "National Planning?" -- Analytical Approach -- Prologue: Past American National Planning Efforts and Ideas -- American National Planning Efforts and Ideas in Retrospect, 1900-1972 -- Related Planning Trends in the 1970s -- Analytical Framework: Five Approaches to National Planning -- The Framework Applied: The Growth and Resource National Planning Debates, 1973-1976 -- The Infirmities of Age: The Incremental and Rational Approaches -- The Challenges of Youth: The General Systems and Learning-Adaptive Approaches -- American National Planning: The Future

O autorze

David E. Wilson, senior research officer in the UN Joint Inspection Unit, Geneva, Switzerland, has served as management analyst and planning coordinator in the U.S. General Accounting Office.