Title: Bureaucrats, policy analysts, statesmen :
Authors: Goldwin, Robert A.,; Goldwin, Robert A.,
Date: 1980
Publisher: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research,
Physical description: x, 133 pages ; 23 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: J
Abstract: Do bureaucrats and policy analysts have a political role auxiliary and subordinate to elected officials, or do they really run things? Do bureaucrats and policy analysts bring oder to a complex world and thereby facilitate effective political leadership, or do they dominate the process with projects and analyses that make political leadership impossible? Do bureaucrats have so much control because they have usurped political power, or is the explanation to be found in our fundamental political principles, which tilt us toward the bureaucratic state?
Contents: Policy science as metaphysical madness / Edward C. Banfield -- Statesmanship in a world of particular substantive choices / Mark H. Moore -- Policy analysis: boon or curse for politicians? / Laurence H. Silberman -- Policy analysis and public choice / Gustave H. Shubert -- Congress, policy analysis, and natural gas deregulation: a parable about fig leaves / Michael J. Malbin -- American statesmanship: old and new / Herbert J. Storing -- Reflections on statesmanship and bureaucracy / Werner J. Dannhauser.
Subject headings (LCSH): Bureaucracy.; Policy sciences.; Policy scientists.; United States--Politics and government.