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Are policy analysts “hired guns”? Do they sell themselves to the highest bidder, and recommend whatever their clients desire? By the very nature of the craft, this task actually is not easy to do. Analysts, when asked to help solve a problem, are likely to reformulate it: this problem cannot be solved within our limitations, but here is one like it that we can do something about. By altering the means, the ends are altered, whether that is acknowledged or not.
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See Frank Levy, Arnold Meltsner, and Aaron Wildavsky, Urban Outcomes (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1974).
See Arnold J. Meltsner, The Politics of City Revenue (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1971), pp. 86–131, and
Anthony Downs, Inside Bureaucracy (Boston: Little, Brown, 1967), pp. 216–217.
See, for example, Nathan Glazer, “A Breakdown of Civil Rights Enforcement,” The Public Interest (Spring 1971), pp. 106–115.
See ‘Rousseau’s Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Men and John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971).
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Wildavsky, A. (1979). Distribution of Urban Services. In: The Art and Craft of Policy Analysis. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04955-4_16
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