Nuclear power plants, new vaccines and drugs, pesticides designed to improve agricultural production, and a plethora of other technological advances hold great promise of improving the quality of human life, but also pose great risks to human well-being.
Aaron Wildavsky, along with Mary Douglas, identified what they called grid-group theory
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
Of all the questions that might be asked about political life, it would be difficult to find one of greater interest than the ancient query: who rules over whom? It appeals powerfully to our curiosity
Aaron Wildavsky's greatest concern, as expressed in his writings, is how people manage to live together
How to behave in the diaspora has been a central problem for Jews over the ages. They have debated... Læs mere
As a result of a lifetime of incomparably wide-ranging investigations, Aaron Wildavsky concluded that politics in the United States and elsewhere was a patterned activity, exhibiting recurring regularities