Toward A Policy-Making Paradigm of Public Administration

'Todd R. LaPorte, "The Recovery of Relevance in the Study of Public Administration," in Toward a New Public Administration, The Minnowbrook Perspective , ed Frank Marini (Scranton, PA Chandler Publishing Co 1971), p. 21

2Waido is quoted in a footnote of Vincent Ostrom, The Intellectual Crisis in American Public Administration (University, AL University of Alabama Press, 1974), p 147

3Eugene J Meehan , The Foundations of Political Analysis, Empirical and Normative ( Homewood, IL Dorsey Press, 1971 ), p 80

4W Henry Lambnght , "The Minnowbrook Perspective and the Future of Public Affairs: Public Administration is Public Policy-Making," in Toward a New Public Administration, The Minnowbrook Perspective, ed Frank Marini (Scranton, PA.. Chandler Publishing Co, 1971 ), p 332.

5The discussion of the prescriptive approach and the failure of causal analysis is based on James Q Wilson , Thinking About Crime (New York: Basic Books, 1975), pp 43-64

6Norton E Long, "Power and Administration," in The Polity, ed Charles Press (Chicago Rand McNally & Co., 1962), p. 50

7 For a representative discussion of the components of the policy process, see James E. Anderson, Public Policy-Making (New York Praeger Publishers, 1975) from which the discussion in this paper has been adapted.

8Norton E Long, op cit , p 50.

9Norton E Long, "Managing the Police Investment," paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Public Administration , New York, 1972.

10 The ensuing discussion of the intellectual tools has been adapted from Eugene J. Meehan, op. cit