Speaking Truth to Power: Art and Craft of Policy Analysis

by Aaron Wildavsky

Book Overview

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.

To learn from the past in order to establish public policy as a discipline in its own right, Wildavsky traces its motifs from their beginnings in the 1960s to the 1980s. Starting from the premise that there has been growing polarization of political elites,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887386970
• ISBN13: 9780887386978
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 470 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 8.9"