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Review Article: Policy Analysis

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1 Quade, Edward S., ed., Policy Sciences (New York: American Elsevier Publishing Company 1970).Google Scholar At last count (1970), there were seven US universities with doctoral programs specifically in public policy; in Britain as far as I can tell, there are several undergraduate classes and two seminars in Masters programs devoted to policy studies. As examples of the flood of publication, one may cite, in ascending order of political ‘involvement': Bauer, Raymond and Gergen, K., The Study of Policy Formation (New York: Free Press, 1968)Google Scholar; the 1966,1967 conferences of the United States SSRC Committee on Government and Legal Processes; and the Caucus for a New Political Science Association. For attempts to develop approaches to practical policy advice in political science, see Ilchman, Warren and Uphoff, Norman, The Political Economy of Change (Berkeley: UCLA Press, 1969)Google Scholar; Dror, Yehizel, ‘Policy Analysts’, Public Administration Review, 27 (1967), 197203.CrossRefGoogle Scholar The policy emphasis has also spread to new government textbooks, as in J. M., and Mitchell's, W. C.Political Analysis and Public Policy (Chicago: Rand-McNally and Co., 1969).Google Scholar

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7 Maclver’s discussion of such ‘social conjunctures’ still repays study. Maclver, R. M., Social Causation (New York: Guinn and Co., 1942), Chap. II.Google Scholar

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12 While the addition of parties and interest groups to the political scientist’s reference provided a more realistic approach, policy remained a peripheral concern, a shadowy consequence which it was the task of administrators to implement and legal scholars to study. In his monumental account of British government, Lowell devoted only his last chapter of nine pages to policy matters; Bryce, in his study of Modern Democracies in 1924Google Scholar had little to say about policy, and nothing to say about social policies in discussing the ‘results of democratic government’. Lowell, A. Lawrence, The Government of England (New York: Macmillan, 1908)Google Scholar, Chap. 22; Bryce, Lord, Modern Democracies (New York: Macmillan, 1924)Google Scholar, Chap. 73.

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14 The literature concerning the correlation of political and other variables with policy outputs is extensive in the US. For reviews, see Jacob, Herbert and Lipsky, Michael, ‘Outputs, Structures, and Power: An Assessment of Changes in the Study of State and Local Polities’, Journal of Politics, 30 (1968), 510–38CrossRefGoogle Scholar, and Fenton, John H. and Chamberlayne, Donald W., ‘The literature Dealing with the Relationships Between Political Processes, Socio-Economic Conditions and Public Policies in the American States’, Polity, 1 (1969), 388404.CrossRefGoogle ScholarFenton, 's own results are in People and Parties in Politics (Glenview, Illinois: Scott, Foresman and Co., 1966).Google Scholar Work on British data has been begun by Alt, James, ‘Some Social and Political Correlates of County Borough Expenditures’, British Journal of Political Science, I (1971), 4962.CrossRefGoogle Scholar Most early work demonstrated political variables to be of very limited significance, while later studies treating policy outputs in terms other than expenditure levels have contradicted these findings. Of the former studies, see Dawson, Richard E. and Robinson, James A., ‘Inter-party Competition, Economic Variables, and Welfare Policies in the American States,’ Journal of Politics, 25 (1963), 265–89CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Dye, Thomas, Politics, Economics, and The Public:Policy Outcomes in the States (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1969)Google Scholar; and Hofferbert, Richard, ‘The Relation Between Public Policy and Some Structural and Environmental Variables in the American States’, The American Political Science Review, LX (1966), 7382.CrossRefGoogle Scholar For the recent rehabilitation of political variables’ independent effect, see Cnudde, Charles and Mccrone, Donald, ‘Party Competition and Welfare Policies in the American States’, The American Political Science Review, LXIII (1969), 858–66CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Clarke, James, ‘Environment, Process and Policy: A Reconsideration’, The American Political Science Review, LXIII (1969)Google Scholar; 1172–82, and Fry, Brian and Winters, Richard, ‘The Politics of Redistribution’, The American Political Science Review, LXIV (1970), 508–22.CrossRefGoogle Scholar The one major international comparison of policy using correlation analysis is Pryor, Frederick's monumental work, Public Expenditure in Capitalist and Communist Nations (London: Allen and Unwin, 1968).Google Scholar

15 For a general review, see Taylor, Michael's ‘Mathematical Political Theory’, British Journal of Political Science, I (1971), 339–71.CrossRefGoogle Scholar An assessment of the contribution of such formal models to substantive policy remains to be written.

16 A stimulating use of the same type of criteria to distinguish sociological and economic approaches is Olson, Mancur's, ‘Economics, Sociology, and the Best of All Possible Worlds’, The Public Interest, 12 (1968), 96118.Google Scholar

17 Civil Service Department, Civil Service College, Course No. 11, ‘Introduction to Government Administration,’ 15 March — 2 April 1971. Bock, Edwin A. and Campbell, Alan, eds., Case Studies in American Government — Interuniversity Case Program (Englewood Cliffs, New JerseyPrentice Hall, 1962).Google Scholar For a casebook approach, see also Stein, Harold, ed., Public Administration and Policy Development: A Casebook (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1952).Google Scholar

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34 See Ryder, N. B., ‘The Cohort As a Concept in the Study of Social Change’, American Sociological Review, 30 (1965), 843–61.CrossRefGoogle Scholar Electoral implications to this effect may be found in Butler, David and Stokes, Donald, Political Change in Britain (London: St. Martin's Press, 1969).Google Scholar

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52 The quotations are from Pearce, B. C. G., ‘Management by Objectives — Quo Vadis’, O & M Bulletin, 26, no. I (1971), p. 24.Google Scholar Other references in this paragraph are to two cases in the same Bulletin, E. E. Goddard, ‘MBO in the GLC, and Captain G. W. Bridle, ‘MBO in HMS Collingwood’.

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65 Lasswell, Harold, The Decision Process, Bureau of Government and Research, College Park, Md., 1956.Google Scholar Compare the six policy-making stages in Rose, Richard, ‘The Variability of Party Government’, Political Studies, 17, no. 4 (1969), 413–45CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and the seven stages in Agger, R. E., et al. , The Rulers and the Ruled (New York: John Wiley, 1964).Google Scholar

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