An Heretical Heir of the Enlightenment: Politics, Policy and Science in the Work of Charles E. Lindblom
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- About the Contributors -- Introductory Comment: The Pattern in the Work -- PART ONE Studies in Llndblomian Theory -- 1 Bold Critic, Cautious Reformer, Skeptical but Hopeful Rationalist -- 2 Knowledge, Power, and Democracy: Lindblom, Critical Theory, and Postmodernism -- 3 Impairments Come from Cultures: The Anti-Gramsci, or the Confessions of a Culturally Biased Social Scientist -- 4 From Pluralism to Multiplism: The Theory of Representative Democracy from Hamilton to Lindblom -- 5 Time and Purpose in the Language of Social Science -- PART TWO Studies in Policy-Making -- 6 Incrementalism, Intelligent Trial-and-Error, and the Future of Political Decision Theory -- 7 Authority and Public Policy: Solving the Political Problem -- 8 The Good Society and the Commercial Republic -- 9 The Interplay of Social Science and Prior Knowledge in Policy and Practice -- 10 Market Versus State-Centred Approaches to American Education: Does Either Make Much Sense? -- PART THREE Studies in Polity and Economy -- 11 Lindblom on Business Power and Public Policy -- 12 Ideas, Interests and Policy Change -- 13 What Is Modern Capitalism? -- 14 Failure of the Logic of Collective Action: "Rational" Work Avoidance and Social Loafing -- Concluding Comment: A Case Study of the Practice of Social Science -- Bibliography of Lindblom's Scholarly Publications.