[Manish Jain]

Policy Analysis Is What Information Systems  
The Art and Craft of Policy Analysis 
Aaron Wildavsky

The task of analysis is to create problems, preferences tempered by possibilities,
which are worth solving. A difficulty is not necessarily a problem;
that depends on what I can do about it, including whether it is worth my
while to try. My inability to go to Mars, a famous gap between aspirations
and actuality, is not a problem but a longing to overcome my limitations.
My inability to explain the influence of the tides on the rise and fall of the
stock market is not a problem unless I have a hypothesis suggesting how
I might influence factors by which the two events might be linked. Only
by suggesting solutions, such as programs linking governmental resources
with social objectives, can we understand what might be done. Policy analysis
involves creating problems that are solvable by specific organizations
in a particular arena of action. A problem in policy analysis, then, cannot
exist apart from a proposed solution, and its solution is part of an organization,
a structure of incentives without which there can be no will to act....

To Read more...

Policy Analysis Is What Information Systems from The Art and Craft of Policy Analysis.pdf Size: 189.7 KB  Downloads: 4

register as member and login to download attachment [pdf] 
use for Educational Purposes Only