Policy Studies And Political Science |
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| Authors: | Lawrence M. Mead |
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| Affiliation: | Associate professor of politics at New York University. This publications include studies of policy analysis, implementation, and federal social policy, most recently Beyond Entitlement: The Social Obligations of Citizenship (New York: Free Press, 1985). |
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| Abstract: | Studies of "policy" and l'policymakingll have proliferated recently. One reason is the serious policymaking difficulties of American and other Western governments. Earlier political science did not address these problems well because of its concentration on political input processes rather than outputs. Most policy studies either evaluate programs 0' explain cases of policymaking, The approach proposed here, called public policy, does both. Analyses of preferred options are played off against the limitations of process, and vice versa. This conception is illustrated and the problems posed by it are discussed. |
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