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
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.
The author of this stunning set of essays on politics and public policy makes crystal clear the meaning of the title
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, 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
Since the presidency of Lyndon Johnson between 1963 and 1968, there is much reason to believe that the executive office is in trouble
Aaron Wildavsky's greatest concern, as expressed in his writings, is how people manage to live together
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