Passing Fancies: Plus Ca Change,
Abstract
The intellectual and professional underpinnings of the policy sciences have been well-articulated for at least thirty years. But, perhaps like any emerging discipline, its track has not been true in any linear sense of the term. Divergencies rather than direction--meanderings in lieu of milestones--have marked its travels. Its erratic intellectual growth has seemingly been diverted and diffused by a number of factors which have deflected it from the original goals and objectives that Lasswell, Dror, and its other early proponents foresaw it attaining. One thus needs to ask what has motivated and shaped the growth of the policy sciences. What trends and conditions have influenced their development as both a discipline and profession? This paper attempts to inventory the development of the policy sciences and their determinants by employing a Lasswellian framework.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1984
- Accession Number
- ADA152560
Entities
People
- P. Deleon
Organizations
- RAND Corporation