Order Without Design: Information Production and Policy Making

by Martha Feldman and Martha S. Feldman

Book Overview

In 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804717265
• ISBN13: 9780804717267
• Release Date: July 1989
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.4" x 8.4"