The art and craft of policy analysis [electronic resource] / Aaron B Wildavsky.

Introduction by B. Guy Peters Acknowledgements Introduction: analysis as art Part 1. Resources versus Objectives Chapter 1. Policy Analysis Is What Information Systems Are Not Chapter 2. Strategic Retreat on Objectives Chapter 3. Policy as Its Own Cause Chapter 4. Coordination without a Coordinator Part 2. Social Interaction versus Intellectual Cogitation Chapter 5. Between Planning and Politics Chapter 6. A Bias Toward Federalism Chapter 7. Opportunity Costs and Merit Wants Chapter 8. Economy and Environment/Rationality and Ritual Part 3. Dogma versus Skepticism Chapter 9. The Self-Evaluating Organization Chapter 10. Skepticism and Dogma in the White House Chapter 11. Citizens as Analysts Part 4. Policy Analysis Chapter 12. Doing Better and Feeling Worse Chapter 13. Learning from Education Chapter 14. A Tax by Any Other Name Chapter 15. Distribution of Urban Services Chapter 16: Analysis as Craft Appendix: Principles for a Graduate School of Public Policy Postscript: Does Europe differ? Policy in selected West European countries.

The Art and Craft of Policy Analysis is a classic work of the Public Policy discipline. Wildavsky's emphasis on the values involved in public policies, as well as the need to build political understandings about the nature of policy, are as important for 21st century policymaking as they were in 1979.