The Art and Craft of Policy Analysis : Reissued with a new introduction by B. Guy Peters /: Reissued with a new introduction by B. Guy Peters. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: By Aaron Wildavsky ; edited by B. Guy Peters.
• Authors: Wildavsky, Aaron
• Editors: Peters, B. Guy
• Contents: Introduction; B. Guy Peters -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1. Resources versus Objectives -- Chapter 1. Policy Analysis Is What Information Systems Are Not -- Chapter 2. Strategic Retreat on Objectives -- 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 -- 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 -- Chapter 11. Citizens as Analysts -- Part 4. Policy Analysis -- Chapter 12. Doing Better and Feeling Worse -- Chapter 13. Learning from Education -- Chapter 14. A Tax by Any Other Name -- Chapter 15. Distribution of Urban Services -- Chapter 16: Analysis as Craft. .
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer International Publishing Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (545 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 320.6; Popular works; Policy sciences; Political planning -- United States; Policy sciences; Political planning; Political Science -- Public Policy -- General; Political Science -- Government -- General; Political Science -- History & Theory; Political structure & processes; Politics & government; Political science & theory; Political science; Legislative bodies; World politics; Political theory; Political Science -- General; United States; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319586199
• Related ISBNs: 331958619X
• Notes: Note: Description based on print version record.
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