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  • Presidential Elections

    Strategies and Structures of American Politics

    by Nelson W. Polsby, Aaron Wildavsky, Steven E. Schier, David A. Hopkins ...
    Polsby and Wildavsky’s classic text, now updated by Stephen Schier and David Hopkins, argues that the institutional rules of the presidential nomination and election processes, in combination with the behavior of the mass electorate, structure the strategic choices faced by politicians in powerful and foreseeable ways. We can make sense of the decisions made by different political actors ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Federalism and Political Culture

    Edited by Aaron Wildavsky ...
    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 the Western domains of social life as fields of cultural competition. Although his interest ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Alienation and the Soviet Economy

    The Collapse of the Socialist Era

    by Paul Craig Roberts ...
    In 1971, Paul Craig Roberts created a firestorm among professional Sovietologists by proclaiming that the economies of the USSR and its East Bloc allies were doomed because their "planned" economies were, in reality, anything but planned.In this revised edition, Paul Craig Roberts examines how reality triumphed over Marxist theory and the implications for the future of Russia and eastern Europe. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Revolt Against the Masses

    And Other Essays on Politics and Public Policy

    by Aaron Wildavsky ...
    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 from those elites who now exercise it to another elite, namely themselves, who do not. This aspiring ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Culture and Social Theory

    by Aaron Wildavsky ...
    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 related, areas: the social construction of meaning, normative/analytic political philosophy, and a theory ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Art and Craft of Policy Analysis

    Reissued with a new introduction by B. Guy Peters

    by Aaron Wildavsky ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The Art and Craft of Policy Analysis is a classic work of the Public Policy discipline. Wildavsky’s emphasis on the values involved in public policies, as well as the need to build political understandings about the nature of policy, are as important for 21st century policymaking as they were in 1979. B. Guy Peters’ critical introduction provides the reader with context for the book, its main ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • Budgeting and Governing

    by Aaron Wildavsky ...
    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 in Budgeting and Governing, now available in paperback, if you cannot budget, you cannot govern. ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Craftways

    On the Organization of Scholarly Work

    by Aaron Wildavsky ...
    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 time honored word-of-mouth approach is all there has been until now; how one works is rarely a subject ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Searching for Safety

    by Aaron Wildavsky ...
    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 avoiding change. The book covers a wide range, including how the human body, as well as plants, animals, ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Cultural Analysis

    Volume 1, Politics, Public Law, and Administration

    by Aaron Wildavsky ...
    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 organized. They tended to exhibit a limited range of variation, and were organized in discoverable, ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Leadership in a Small Town

    Edited by Aaron Wildavsky ...
    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 the town in which we live. Is it a single powerful individual, an economic elite, a series of ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Assimilation Versus Separation

    Joseph the Administrator and the Politics of Religion in Biblical Israel

    Edited by Aaron Wildavsky ...
    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 nations. The question not only of survival, but of the basis for survival, is also a central problem in ... Read more

    $65.99 USD