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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction to the AldineTransaction Edition -- The Man -- Diesing's First Four Books: A Personal Perspective -- Paul Diesing and the Philosophy of Science -- Hegel's Truth and Diesing's Truth -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 1 Social Studies of Science -- I. The Study of Science -- II. The Study of Ideology -- III. The Study of Standpoints and Perspectives -- Part I -- 2 Neoclassical Economics -- I. The Neoclassical Perspective -- II. Oligopoly and Game Theory -- 3 Extended Applications of the Neoclassical Perspective -- I. Politics -- II. Interpersonal Relations -- III. Deterrence Theory -- IV. Conclusions -- 4 Keynesian Economics -- I. Keynes -- II. Keynesian Economics, 1936-1966 -- III. The Unification of Neoclassical and Keynesian Economics -- IV. One Goes Into Two: Left, Right, And Center Keynesians -- 5 The Objectification of Society: The Systems Approach -- I. Parsons -- II. Diffusions of Parsonian Functionalism -- III. Objective Studies of Social Problems -- Domestic social problems -- Deterrence as crisis management -- IV. Contrast Between Functionalist and Neoclassical Categories -- Household consumption -- Social behavior as exchange -- Security dilemma vs. hostility spiral -- The international economy -- Racism -- V. Summary: Comparative Advantages of the Objective System Perspective -- 6 Schumpeter and the Intellectuals -- I. Elite Theory -- II. Schumpeter and Rostow -- III. The Intellectuals -- IV. Developments in Elite Theory -- V. Preliminary Evaluation -- 7 The Critical Intellectuals -- I. Studies of the Elite -- II. Studies of the Intellectuals -- III. Studies of the Masses -- IV. Preliminary Evaluation -- Views of Oppression and Injustice -- Doubts About Survey Data -- Lack of Overall View -- Tendency to Exaggeration

This Element explores the uncertain future of public policy practice and scholarship in an age of radical disruption. Building on foundational ideas in policy sciences, we argue that an anachronistic instrumental rationalism underlies contemporary policy logic and limits efforts to understand new policy challenges. We consider whether the policy sciences framework can be reframed to facilitate deeper understandings of this anachronistic epistemic, in anticipation of a research agenda about epistemic destabilization and contestation. The Element applies this theoretical provocation to environmental policy and sustainability, issues about which policymaking proceeds amid unpredictable contexts and rising sociopolitical turbulence that portend a liminal state in the transition from one way of thinking to another. The Element concludes by contemplating the fate of policy's epistemic instability, anticipating what policy understandings will emerge in a new system, and questioning the degree to which either presages a seismic shift in the relationship between policy and society.

This forward-thinking book examines the future of public policy as a discipline, both as it is taught and as it is practiced. Critically assessing the limits of current theories and approaches, leading scholars in the field highlight new models and perspectives.

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