The Art and Craft of Policy Analysis

Part I. Resources Versus Objectives

1. Policy Analysis Is What Information Systems Are Not
Aaron Wildavsky

2. Strategic Retreat on Objectives: Learning from Failure in American Public Policy
Aaron Wildavsky

3. Policy as Its Own Cause
Aaron Wildavsky

4. Coordination Without a Coordinator
Aaron Wildavsky

Part II. Social Interaction Versus Intellectual Cogitation

5. Between Planning and Politics: Intellect vs. Interaction as Analysis
Aaron Wildavsky

6. A Bias Toward Federalism
Aaron Wildavsky

7. Opportunity Costs and Merit Wants
Aaron Wildavsky

8. Economy and Environment Rationality and Ritual
Aaron Wildavsky

Part III. Dogma Versus Skepticism

9. The Self-Evaluating Organization
Aaron Wildavsky

10. Skepticism and Dogma in the White House: Jimmy Carter’s Theory of Governing
Aaron Wildavsky

11. Citizens as Analysts
Aaron Wildavsky

Part IV. Policy Analysis

12. Doing Better and Feeling Worse: The Political Pathology of Health Policy
Aaron Wildavsky

13. Learning from Education: If We’re Still Stuck on the Problems, Maybe We’re Taking the Wrong Exam
Aaron Wildavsky

14. A Tax by Any Other Name: The Donor-Directed Automatic Percentage-Contribution Bonus, a Budget Alternative for Financing Governmental Support of Charity
Aaron Wildavsky

15. Distribution of Urban Services
Aaron Wildavsky

16. Analysis as Craft
Aaron Wildavsky

Keywords: Popular Science, Popular Science in Political Science and International Relations, Governance and Government, Legislative and Executive Politics, US Politics, Political History, Political Theory