Organizations for Policy Analysis

Download or read book Organizations for Policy Analysis written by Carol H. Weiss and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do legislators select policy analyses objectively? How much influence do these organizations have? Do these organizations enhance the policy process? This book addresses these key questions while giving a historical overview of the genesis, activities and orientations of fourteen policy analysis organizations. Almost all of the material is written by analysts who themselves are, or have been, members of the units under discussion. They write about the founding, funding and findings of the organizations and try to place them within the political and economic context of the period.