EDWARD BRYAN PORTIS is Associate Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University. He is the author of Max Weber and Political Commitment: Science, Politics, and Personality. His articles dealing with topics in political theory and social inquiry have appeared in Social Science Quarterly, Polity, Political Studies, PS, Administration and Society, Sociological Inquiry, The Review of Politics and other professional journals.MICHAEL B. LEVY is Administrative Assistant to Senator Lloyd Bentsen and Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University. He has published articles in Political Theory, Western Poliical Quarterly, Polity, and The Review of Politics. He has edited two anthologies, one on American political thought, the other on the future of liberalism.

• Political Theory and the Emergence of a Policy Science by Michael B. Levy Political Theory and Policy Analysis as Complementary A: Mutually Compensating Activities Theory and Policy Analysis: Bridging the Gap by Bruce Jennings and Good Reasons in Policy Analysis by J. Patrick Dobel Ethical Problems of Imperfect Knowledge in the Policy Sciences by Fred Eidlin B: Dimensions of the Same Activity Political Theory as Policy Analysis--and Vice Versa by Robert E. Goodin Policy Inquiry and Rational Ideologies by David C. Paris Political Theory and Policy Analysis as Hierarchically Integral A: Political Theory Guides Policy Analysis The Political-Theoretical Foundations of Public Policy by Lance deHaven-Smith and Randall B. Riply Political Institutions and Political Practice by Stephen L. Elkin Formal Theory and the Prospects of a Policy Science by Douglas Muzzio and Gerald De Maio B: Policy Analysis Guides Political Theory "The Policy Orientation" and the Theoretical Development of Political Science by George J. Graham, Jr. Theory and Data in Policy Analysis: Some Lessons from the Study of Urban Politics by Bryan Jones Political Theory and Policy Analysis as Mutually Exclusive A: Theory Threatens Policy Analysis Political Judgment and Theory in Policy Analysis by Charles W. Anderson Elite Informants and Theoretical Guidance in Policy Analysis by Susan B. Hansen B: Policy Analysis Threatens Theory Eonomic Discourse, Policy Analysis, and the Problem of the Political by Edward J. Harpham and Richard K. Scotch The Theoretical Illegitimacy of Social Scientific Expertise by Edward B. Portis Bibliography Index

EDWARD BRYAN PORTIS is Associate Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University. He is the author of Max Weber and Political Commitment: Science, Politics, and Personality. His articles dealing with topics in political theory and social inquiry have appeared in Social Science Quarterly, Polity, Political Studies, PS, Administration and Society, Sociological Inquiry, The Review of Politics and other professional journals.MICHAEL B. LEVY is Administrative Assistant to Senator Lloyd Bentsen and Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University. He has published articles in Political Theory, Western Poliical Quarterly, Polity, and The Review of Politics. He has edited two anthologies, one on American political thought, the other on the future of liberalism.

• Political Theory and the Emergence of a Policy Science by Michael B. Levy Political Theory and Policy Analysis as Complementary A: Mutually Compensating Activities Theory and Policy Analysis: Bridging the Gap by Bruce Jennings and Good Reasons in Policy Analysis by J. Patrick Dobel Ethical Problems of Imperfect Knowledge in the Policy Sciences by Fred Eidlin B: Dimensions of the Same Activity Political Theory as Policy Analysis--and Vice Versa by Robert E. Goodin Policy Inquiry and Rational Ideologies by David C. Paris Political Theory and Policy Analysis as Hierarchically Integral A: Political Theory Guides Policy Analysis The Political-Theoretical Foundations of Public Policy by Lance deHaven-Smith and Randall B. Riply Political Institutions and Political Practice by Stephen L. Elkin Formal Theory and the Prospects of a Policy Science by Douglas Muzzio and Gerald De Maio B: Policy Analysis Guides Political Theory "The Policy Orientation" and the Theoretical Development of Political Science by George J. Graham, Jr. Theory and Data in Policy Analysis: Some Lessons from the Study of Urban Politics by Bryan Jones Political Theory and Policy Analysis as Mutually Exclusive A: Theory Threatens Policy Analysis Political Judgment and Theory in Policy Analysis by Charles W. Anderson Elite Informants and Theoretical Guidance in Policy Analysis by Susan B. Hansen B: Policy Analysis Threatens Theory Eonomic Discourse, Policy Analysis, and the Problem of the Political by Edward J. Harpham and Richard K. Scotch The Theoretical Illegitimacy of Social Scientific Expertise by Edward B. Portis Bibliography Index