Public Policy Making ReexaminedPublic Policymaking Reexamined is now recognized as a fundamental treatise for public policy studies. Although it caused much controversy when it was first published for its systematic approach to policy studies, the book is acknowledged as a modern classic of continuing importance for the teaching and research of public policy, planning and policy analysis, and public administration. The paperback includes a new introduction updating and supplementing many of the author's original ideas. Professor Dror combines the approaches of policy analysis, behavioral science, and systems analysis in his examination of the reality of public policymaking and his suggestions for its reform. Actual policymaking is carefully evaluated with the help of explicit criteria and standards based on an optimal model approach, resulting in detailed proposals for improvement. He applies a scientific orientation to the study of social facts and theory. |
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Page 341 - James M. Buchanan and Gordon Tullock, The Calculus of Consent, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1962. Empirical work along these lines includes Otto A. Davis and George H. Haines, Jr., "A Political Approach to a Theory of Public Expenditure: The Case of Municipalities," National Tax Journal, XIX, September, 1966, pp.
Page 21 - Some Recent Substantive and Methodological Developments in the Theory of Organizational Decision-Making," in Austin Ranney, ed., Essays on the Behavioral Study of Politics (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1962), pp.
Page 341 - Karl W. Deutsch, The Nerves of Government: Models of Political Communication and Control /New York, The Free Press of Glencoe, 1963/, pp.
Page 330 - Public Policy: Yearbook of the Graduate School of Public Administration, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1958.
Page 335 - Albert O. Hirschman, Journeys Toward Progress: Studies of Economic Policy-Making in Latin America (New York: Twentieth Century Fund, 1963), ch. 1. 15. Daelia Maimon, Werner Baer, and Pedro P. Geiger, "O Impacto Regional das Politicas Economicas no Brasil," Revista Brasileira de Geografia 39, no.
Page 355 - Gabriel A. Almond and Sidney Verba, The Civic Culture (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1963); William T.
Page 163 - The policymaking stage also happens to include seven phases: 8. Suballocating resources. 9. Establishing operational goals, with some order of priority for them. 10. Establishing a set of other significant values, with some order of priority for them. 11. Preparing a set of major alternative policies, including some "good
Page 330 - Robert N. Anthony, Planning and Control Systems; A Framework for Analysis (Boston: 1965), pp. 16-18. 3. Frederick A. Cleveland, "Evolution of the Budget Idea in the United States," Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, LXII (1915), 16.
Page 328 - Bernard Barber, Science and the Social Order, Glencoe, 111., Free Press, 1952, p.