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1 online resource (391 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; About the Contributors; Introductory Comment: The Pattern in the Work; PART ONE Studies in Llndblomian Theory; 1 Bold Critic, Cautious Reformer, Skeptical but Hopeful Rationalist; 2 Knowledge, Power, and Democracy: Lindblom, Critical Theory, and Postmodernism; 3 Impairments Come from Cultures: The Anti-Gramsci, or the Confessions of a Culturally Biased Social Scientist; 4 From Pluralism to Multiplism: The Theory of Representative Democracy from Hamilton to Lindblom; 5 Time and Purpose in the Language of Social Science |
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PART TWO Studies in Policy-Making6 Incrementalism, Intelligent Trial-and-Error, and the Future of Political Decision Theory; 7 Authority and Public Policy: Solving the Political Problem; 8 The Good Society and the Commercial Republic; 9 The Interplay of Social Science and Prior Knowledge in Policy and Practice; 10 Market Versus State-Centred Approaches to American Education: Does Either Make Much Sense?; PART THREE Studies in Polity and Economy; 11 Lindblom on Business Power and Public Policy; 12 Ideas, Interests and Policy Change; 13 What Is Modern Capitalism? |
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14 Failure of the Logic of Collective Action: ""Rational"" Work Avoidance and Social LoafingConcluding Comment: A Case Study of the Practice of Social Science; Bibliography of Lindblom's Scholarly Publications |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Policy sciences -- History
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Policy scientists -- United States -- Biography
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Policy sciences
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Policy scientists
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United States
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Biographies
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429699825 |
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0429699824 |
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