A strategy of decision : policy evaluation as a social process
- New York : The Free, 1970
- 268 p.
Part one - Current conceptions of policy analysis and evaluation 1. Received ideald: deductive systems and welfare functions 2. A critique of the classical ideals 3. The synoptic conception of problem solving Part two - Observed practice in policy evaluation and decision-making 4. Matching practices to political contexts 5. The strategy of disjointed incrementalism 6. Why analysts use the strategy Part three - Choice of procedure implicit in choice of value 7. Meliorative comparisons 8. The problem of distribution Part four - The rehabilitation of utilitarianism 9. Utilitarianism rehabilitated on moral grounds 10. The strategy as a practical subtiture for the calculus