Title: Honest numbers and democracy
First published: 1998
Description: In Honest Numbers and Democracy, Walter Williams offers a revealing history of policy analysis in the federal government and a scorching critique of what's wrong with social policy analysis today.

Williams, a policy insider who witnessed the birth of domestic policy analysis during the Johnson administration, contends that the increasingly partisan U.S. political environment is vitiating both "honest numbers" - the data used to direct public policy - and, more importantly, honest analysts, particularly in the White House.
Subjects: Social indicators, Methodology, Statistics, Social conditions, Statistical services, Social policy, Decision making, Sozialpolitik, Sozialer Indikator, Democracy, United states, social conditions, 1945-, United states, statistics, United states, social policy
Places: United States
Time periods: 1945-
LC classification: HN60 .W55 1998