The Assumptions of Policy Analysis

In: Policy studies journal: an international journal of public policy, Band 9, Heft 4, S. 552-558

Abstract

The preconditions of policy making become relevant when a situation, actual or hypothetical, is perceived as important, & subject to improvement by human action. Perceptions of the situation, its origins, & possibilities for acting on it vary immensely with the culture of the society & with time. This is illustrated by a brief summary of British political & cultural responses to poverty & unemployment in the last 100 years. Modified HA.