The Reach and Grasp of Policy Analysis: Comparative Views of the CraftWhat has been tried and what has been accomplished by a generation of policy analysis? What conditions accounted for the near-meteoric rise in the 1960s and 1970s of this special brand of applied social science - and what accounts for its seeming decline in the 1980s? Hofferbert identifies the seeds of apparent decline of the "policy analysis industry" in its own institutional features, and he proposes specific alternatives for the policy-analyst/policy-maker relationships that offer the most promise of mutual benefit. The Reach and Grasp of Policy Analysis examines the division of scholarly labor and the often uncomfortable intellectual relationship between policy analysis and traditional academic disciplines, especially between policy analysis and political science. Why, asks Hofferbert, have political scientists been so seldom interested in the consequences of governmental action? He finds the explanation in the contrasting moral priorities of political science versus policy analysis. |
Contents
Mapping U S Local Policy Research | 21 |
Testing Common Sense and Recognizing Patterns | 38 |
Policy Analysis for Export to the Developing World 559 | 57 |
What Social Scientists Do Not Know about Public | 84 |
BottomUp Development Research Illustrated by | 109 |
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academic agency aggregate American Analytic Tools appropriate technology basic needs policies basic needs strategy behavior Broome County bureaucracy Center for Social central Chapter chullo comparative policy context Dailekh District democratic dependent variables developed countries domestic water systems economic effect elderly empirical Ergüder evaluation research example extent federal GNP per capita goals growth Heidenheimer Hofferbert impact implementation income inquiry institutional instruments Khadkabada LDCs linkages major measured moral Nepal Ottoman Empire participants patterns Peace Corps penetrability percent policy analysis policy makers policy outputs policy process policy research policy systems political science political scientists poorest prince(ss priorities problems projects public administration public management Public Policy questions residents sector Social Science Research social scientists society socioeconomic specific structure substantive Surkhet survey systems paradigm theory Turkey UNICEF University variance village water systems welfare Western World Bank
References to this book
Reframing Public Policy: Discursive Politics and Deliberative Practices Frank Fischer Limited preview - 2003 |
Citizens, Experts, and the Environment: The Politics of Local Knowledge Frank Fischer Limited preview - 2000 |