Democracy and the Policy Sciences - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Democracy and the Policy Sciences write by Peter deLeon. This book was released on 1997-08-21. Democracy and the Policy Sciences available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As originally proposed by Harold Lasswell, the policy sciences were dedicated to democratic governance. But today they are far removed from the democratic process and do little to promote the American democratic system. This book examines how in the context of American history and the development of the policy sciences, a more democratic, participatory policy analysis could be conceptualized in theory and administered in practice. Peter deLeon argues that for the policy sciences to move toward democracy, they must accept a new analytic paradigm that draws heavily on critical thinking and the writing of post-positivism. To further that end, he presents a "minipopulist" procedure that will allow more citizen participation without hamstringing the processes of government.
Policy Sciences
Policy Sciences - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Policy Sciences write by Arie Y. Lewin. This book was released on 2013-10-22. Policy Sciences available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Policy Sciences presents the framework of situational normativism, a descriptive-normative methodology by which the components of policy sciences may be pragmatically integrated and applied to real decision problems. The uniqueness of this approach derives from the integration of behavioral, political, and social considerations with a broad range of systems and quantitative methodologies. Furthermore, this approach encompasses specific considerations of implementation, political feasibility, and organization redesign. Organized into three parts, this book begins with an overview of policy sciences followed by a description of the adaptive analytical framework of situational normativism. Policy making is considered as a process of adaptation and a policy-making system generally composed of two or more coupled policy makers, each of whom is viewed as an adaptive purposeful system, is described. The last part consists of nine original cases that demonstrate the application of specific methodologies to real-world problems within the framework of situational normativism. Three of the case studies focus on the zoning decision process in the city of Pittsburgh; the use of a Delphi procedure to isolate and define the influential goals of an organization; and national policies toward foreign private investment. This monograph is intended for senior undergraduates and graduates taking a course in policy sciences and inter-organizational decision making and similar courses.
Science and Ideology in the Policy Sciences
Science and Ideology in the Policy Sciences - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Science and Ideology in the Policy Sciences write by Paul Diesing. This book was released on 2017-07-05. Science and Ideology in the Policy Sciences available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The purpose of this book is to examine how ideology operates--in the sense of influencing the conduct of inquiry--in the policy sciences, defined as economics, political science, and sociology. The author seeks to identify the main ideologies and show how each ideology produces a preference for certain problems, methods, and hypotheses; how it sensitizes scientists to certain phenomena and suggests certain interpretations of those phenomena; and how it closes off other phenomena and concepts from investigation and testing, or at least distorts that investigation. In this book, Diesing critically examines all the major schools of policy-related social thought from 1930 to 1975. He deals with Neoclassical Economics and its various applications, the Keynesians, the Systems Approach, the Schumpeter perspective, the Critical Intellectuals, the Pluralists, the J. K. Galbraith School, New Left Marxism, and the Ecological Paradigm of Schumacher and others. The world looks different if your perspective is that of a rational small businessman working in a society of hypothetical perfect competition, as opposed to that of a proletarian, looking up at your oppressors. Part One is descriptive and evaluative, considering each ideology in turn; Part Two considers the policy implications. "In 1982, Diesing published a remarkable book entitled Science and Ideology in the Policy Sciences. When I interviewed Diesing in Buffalo in the summer of 1984, he told me that to date, the publication had been reviewed in only two professional journals. I was astounded. Science & Ideology...was the best book I had read in a decade, and it related directly to all the policy sciences. The lack of professional response may partially reflect Diesing's disinterest in self-promotion, but beyond this is the 'community' problem. Scholars are recognized within disciplines, but there is only a tiny 'community of social science'. I consider this to be the most brilliant of Diesing's books. Like all of Diesing's works, it remains highly relevant today."--from the introduction by Richard Hartwig.
A Pre-view of Policy Sciences
A Pre-view of Policy Sciences - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Pre-view of Policy Sciences write by Harold Dwight Lasswell. This book was released on 1971. A Pre-view of Policy Sciences available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Policy Sciences
The Policy Sciences - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Policy Sciences write by Daniel Lerner. This book was released on 1951. The Policy Sciences available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
