If public ideas are so important now, why are policy analysts so depressed?

✍ Scribed by David R. Beam

• Book ID: 102660771
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 559 KB
• Volume: 15
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0276-8739
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1520-6688(199622)15:3<430::aid-pam6>3.0.co;2-j

✦ Synopsis

Public Ideas Are Important Now!

Public ideas are important now. They, along with the organized group interests that political scientists traditionally regarded as the principal determinant of legislative outcomes, are recognized as important influences on policy. A variety of studies (among them those of Martha Derthick and Paul Quirk [1985,