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Order Without Design : Information Production and Policy Making by Martha S. Feldman (1989, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherStanford University Press
ISBN-100804717265
ISBN-139780804717267
eBay Product ID (ePID)316377
Product Key Features
Number of Pages216 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameOrder Without Design : Information Production and Policy Making
Publication Year1989
SubjectPublic Affairs & Administration, Référence
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPolitical Science
AuthorMartha S. Feldman
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight9.7 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN88-034255
Dewey Edition19
Reviews"It's a gem--clear, well-written, and sharply focused. It addresses important issues that cross disciplines, outlines its arguments well, and provides useful examples drawn from observations and interviews. It presents a persuasive conception of decision making in an organizational context." --Peter K. Manning ,Michigan State University, "A splendid book. . . . What I find most attractive is Feldman's uncanny ability to boil down a most uncertain matter to a swiftly moving interpretive tale that gets past disciplinary interests to wrestle with policy formulation in the warrens of a government bureaucracy. It is a book that anyone seriously attempting to account for the making of policy will have to address." —John Van Maanen ,Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "A splendid book. . . . What I find most attractive is Feldman's uncanny ability to boil down a most uncertain matter to a swiftly moving interpretive tale that gets past disciplinary interests to wrestle with policy formulation in the warrens of a government bureaucracy. It is a book that anyone seriously attempting to account for the making of policy will have to address." --John Van Maanen ,Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "It's a gem—clear, well-written, and sharply focused. It addresses important issues that cross disciplines, outlines its arguments well, and provides useful examples drawn from observations and interviews. It presents a persuasive conception of decision making in an organizational context." —Peter K. Manning ,Michigan State University
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal350/.0006
SynopsisIn this lively and, ultimately, disturbing study of policy analysts who are employed in bureaucracies, the author finds a startling paradox. The analysts know that the papers they so painstakingly prepare will not be used; as one analyst remarked, "Either it won't get done in time, or it won't be good enough, or the person who wanted it done will have left and no one will know what to do with it, or the issue will no longer exist." Yet the analysts continue to work at producing these papers. The means of producing information is at the heart of the paradox. The process systematically produces information that is difficult to use directly in decision-making. Yet analysts can do little to alter the constraints of the process. They continue to produce papers because it is their job, they value doing it, and it is their major means of influencing policy. In so doing they make a unique, though indirect, contribution to policy making. Drawing on eighteen months of observation and participation in the work of the policy office of the U.S. Department of Energy, the author fully investigates the conditions that create the paradox and the positive as well as the negative implications of the process of information production in organizations.
LC Classification NumberJF1525
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