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59 produkter
Cultural Analysis
Volume 1, Politics, Public Law, and Administration
Inbunden, 2006
2519 kr
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As a result of a lifetime of incomparably wide-ranging investigations, Aaron Wildavsky concluded that politics in the United States and elsewhere was a patterned activity, exhibiting recurring regularities. Political values, beliefs, and institutions were neither endlessly varied, nor haphazardly …
Private Government of Public Money
Community and Policy inside British Politics
Av Hugh Heclo, Aaron Wildavsky
Häftad, 1981
552 kr
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Cultural Theory
Av Michael Thompson, Richard J Ellis m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2513 kr
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Why do people want what they want? Why does one person see the world as a place to control, while another feels controlled by the world? A useful theory of culture, the authors contend, should start with these questions, and the answers, given different historical conditions, should apply equally …
Cultural Theory
Av Mary Wildavsky, Aaron Wildavsky m. fl.
E-bok, 2018
1004 kr
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Why do people want what they want? Why does one person see the world as a place to control, while another feels controlled by the world? A useful theory of culture, the authors contend, should start with these questions, and the answers, given different historical conditions, should apply equally …
Cultural Theory
Av Mary Wildavsky, Aaron Wildavsky m. fl.
E-bok, 2018
1004 kr
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Why do people want what they want? Why does one person see the world as a place to control, while another feels controlled by the world? A useful theory of culture, the authors contend, should start with these questions, and the answers, given different historical conditions, should apply equally …
Risk and Culture
An Essay on the Selection of Technological and Environmental Dangers
Av Mary Douglas, Aaron Wildavsky
Häftad, 1983
371 kr
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Can we know the risks we face, now or in the future? No, we cannot; but yes, we must act as if we do. Some dangers are unknown; others are known, but not by us because no one person can know everything. Most people cannot be aware of most dangers at most times. Hence, no one can calculate precisely …
Implementation
How Great Expectations in Washington Are Dashed in Oakland; Or, Why It's Amazing that Federal Programs Work at All, This Being a Saga of the Economic Development Administration as Told by Two Sympathetic Observers Who Seek to Build Morals on a Foundation
Av Jeffrey L. Pressman, Aaron Wildavsky
Häftad, 1984
371 kr
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Three substantial new chapters and a new preface in this third edition explore and elaborate the relationship between the evaluation of programs and the study of their implementation. The authors suggest that tendencies to assimilate the two should be resisted. Evaluation should retain its …
Deficit and the Public Interest
The Search for Responsible Budgeting in the 1980s
Av Joseph White, Aaron Wildavsky
Häftad, 1989
799 kr
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Political time is counted not in years, but in issues—the Depression defined the political era of the 1930s just as the Cold War did the 1950s and civil rights the 1960s. In the 1980s, the federal budget loomed as the dominant issue by which all others were considered and has become a concern that …
Deficit and the Public Interest
The Search for Responsible Budgeting in the 1980s
Av Joseph White, Aaron Wildavsky
Inbunden, 1989
1270 kr
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Political time is counted not in years, but in issues—the Depression defined the political era of the 1930s just as the Cold War did the 1950s and civil rights the 1960s. In the 1980s, the federal budget loomed as the dominant issue by which all others were considered and has become a concern that …
Risk and Culture
An Essay on the Selection of Technological and Environmental Dangers
Av Aaron Wildavsky, Mary Douglas
E-bok, 1983
433 kr
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Can we know the risks we face, now or in the future? No, we cannot; but yes, we must act as if we do. Some dangers are unknown; others are known, but not by us because no one person can know everything. Most people cannot be aware of most dangers at most times. Hence, no one can calculate precisely …
But Is It True?
A Citizen’s Guide to Environmental Health and Safety Issues
Häftad, 1997
509 kr
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We've eaten Alar with our apples and PCBs with our fish, drunk arsenic with our water, breathed asbestos in our schools. Someone sounded the alarm, someone else said we were safe, and both had science on their side. Whom are we to trust? How are we to know? Amid this chaos of questions and …
Leadership in a Small Town
Av Aaron Wildavsky, Aaron Wildavsky
Häftad, 2004
752 kr
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Of all the questions that might be asked about political life, it would be difficult to find one of greater interest than the ancient query: who rules over whom? It appeals powerfully to our curiosity. We want to know who "runs" things--who makes policy decisions in New York, Washington, London, or …
Assimilation Versus Separation
Joseph the Administrator and the Politics of Religion in Biblical Israel
Häftad, 2001
752 kr
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How to behave in the diaspora has been a central problem for Jews over the ages. They have debated whether to assimilate by adopting local customs or whether to remain a God-centered people loyal to their temporal rulers but maintaining the peculiar customs that separated them from their host …
Revolt Against the Masses
And Other Essays on Politics and Public Policy
Häftad, 2002
752 kr
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The author of this stunning set of essays on politics and public policy makes crystal clear the meaning of the title. "The revolutionaries of contemporary America do not seek to redistribute privilege from those who have it to those who do not. These radicals wish to arrange a transfer of power …
Cultural Theory
Av Aaron Wildavsky, Mary Wildavsky m. fl.
Häftad, 1990
854 kr
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Why do people want what they want? Why does one person see the world as a place to control, while another feels controlled by the world? A useful theory of culture, the authors contend, should start with these questions, and the answers, given different historical conditions, should apply equally …
Speaking Truth to Power
Art and Craft of Policy Analysis
Av Aaron Wildavsky, Robbin Laird
Häftad, 1987
793 kr
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One of the foremost experts in public policy here attempts not only to describe what public policy is, but given societal changes in the last two decades, to account for its present status.To learn from the past in order to establish public policy as a discipline in its own right, Wildavsky traces …
Searching for Safety
Häftad, 2017
706 kr
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Nuclear power plants, new vaccines and drugs, pesticides designed to improve agricultural production, and a plethora of other technological advances hold great promise of improving the quality of human life, but also pose great risks to human well-being.
Federalism and Political Culture
E-bok, 2021
831 kr
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Aaron Wildavsky well understood that federalism is about freedom and diversity - not hierarchy and decentralization. His was an intensely normative concern with the promise of federalism and its abandonment in the United States. Over time, he became increasingly focused on political culture, …
Federalism and Political Culture
E-bok, 2021
831 kr
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Aaron Wildavsky well understood that federalism is about freedom and diversity - not hierarchy and decentralization. His was an intensely normative concern with the promise of federalism and its abandonment in the United States. Over time, he became increasingly focused on political culture, …
Cultural Analysis
Volume 1, Politics, Public Law, and Administration
Häftad, 2017
749 kr
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As a result of a lifetime of incomparably wide-ranging investigations, Aaron Wildavsky concluded that politics in the United States and elsewhere was a patterned activity, exhibiting recurring regularities. Political values, beliefs, and institutions were neither endlessly varied, nor haphazardly …
Culture and Social Theory
Häftad, 2018
749 kr
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Aaron Wildavsky, along with Mary Douglas, identified what they called grid-group theory. Wildavsky began calling this "cultural theory," and applied it to an astounding array of subjects. The essays in this volume exemplify the theory's potential contributions to three seemingly disparate, but …
Assimilation Versus Separation
Joseph the Administrator and the Politics of Religion in Biblical Israel
Inbunden, 2017
2510 kr
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How to behave in the diaspora has been a central problem for Jews over the ages. They have debated whether to assimilate by adopting local customs or whether to remain a God-centered people loyal to their temporal rulers but maintaining the peculiar customs that separated them from their host …
Budgeting and Governing
Inbunden, 2017
2510 kr
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Aaron Wildavsky's greatest concern, as expressed in his writings, is how people manage to live together. This concern may at first appear to have little to do with the study of budgeting, but for Wildavsky budgeting made living together possible. Indeed, as he argues here, if you cannot budget, you …
Craftways
On the Organization of Scholarly Work
Inbunden, 2017
2439 kr
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The one subject that serious students want most to know about, other than their specialty, is how academic life is lived and how scholarly work is carried out. Their curiosity is equally shared by those interested in how to improve the quality and quantity of their work. With few exceptions, the …
Leadership in a Small Town
Av Aaron Wildavsky, Aaron Wildavsky
Inbunden, 2017
2510 kr
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Of all the questions that might be asked about political life, it would be difficult to find one of greater interest than the ancient query: who rules over whom? It appeals powerfully to our curiosity. We want to know who "runs" things--who makes policy decisions in New York, Washington, London, or …
Searching for Safety
Inbunden, 2018
2510 kr
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Protecting ourselves against the risks associated with modern technologies has emerged as a major public concern throughout the industrialized world. Searching for Safety is unique in its exposition of a theory that explains how and why risk taking makes life safer and exposes the high risk of …
Speaking Truth to Power
Art and Craft of Policy Analysis
Av Aaron Wildavsky, Robbin Laird
Inbunden, 2017
2510 kr
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One of the foremost experts in public policy here attempts not only to describe what public policy is, but given societal changes in the last two decades, to account for its present status.To learn from the past in order to establish public policy as a discipline in its own right, Wildavsky traces …
Revolt Against the Masses
And Other Essays on Politics and Public Policy
Inbunden, 2018
2510 kr
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The author of this stunning set of essays on politics and public policy makes crystal clear the meaning of the title. "The revolutionaries of contemporary America do not seek to redistribute privilege from those who have it to those who do not. These radicals wish to arrange a transfer of power …
Private Government of Public Money
Community and Policy inside British Politics
Av Aaron Wildavsky, Hugh Heclo
E-bok, 1981
779 kr
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