Power, Knowledge, And Politics
Subtitle: Policy Analysis In The States (American Governance and Public Policy)
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Published: April 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781589010499
Subjects: Central government policies; Research; Political Science; Government - U.S. Government; United States; Politics / Current Events; Public Policy - General; Politics/International Relations; USA; Political planning; Government - Legislative Branch; Government - State & Provincial; States; Decision making; Legislators; Policy sciences
First sentence: Policy analysis is conducted in nearly every university, every medium-to large-sized city in the United States, every state capital, every federal agency, andcopiouslyfor the U.S. Congress and White House. So-called "think tanks" have proliferated in the past thirty years, generating vast quantities of policy research and becoming so pervasive as to be considered by some as "virtually a new branch of the political system" (Ricci 1993).