Policymaking Article Reviews Samples For Students

Charles E. Lindblom, The Science of Muddling Through, 1959

Thesis: This article discusses about the various nuances related to choices in policy making and introduces two different approaches to workout choices for policymaking. The article discusses about the advantages and disadvantages of using different methods of policy making in Public Administration and tries to find out the best way to help create modifications in policies in accordance with the changing trends.
“It would not, as in the first method of policy-making, approximate a more mechanical process of choosing the means that best satisfied goals that were previously clarified and ranked.” (Page 159)
“Accordingly, I propose in this ...

Charles E. Lindblom. The Science of “Muddling Through.” 1959.
Thesis: According to Charles, the United States bureaucracy uses bounded rationality and limited policy analysis in formulating regulations. He states that root analysis is a more comprehensive approach for decision-making than branch analysis. Charles, however, argues that policy makers lack the intellectual capacity to accomplish a root analysis, hence the lack of policy developments in organizations. The author states that a rational decision-making approach is not possible and explains why political maneuvering in decision-making was favorable.

“In the United States, for example, no part of government attempts a comprehensive overview of policy” (165)

“Limits on human intellectual capacities and on available information set definite limits to man’s capacity ...

Article Review One – Date of Submission

For PAD 3003 Introduction to Public Administration

Benjamin I. Page, previously connected with the University of Chicago, currently teaches as a professor at Northwestern University, where he holds the Gordon S. Fulcher Professor of Decision Making title and Faculty Associate of the university’s Institute for Policy Research position. He earned his PhD at Stanford University and JD at Harvard Law School.
Robert Y. Shapiro teaches as a professor at Columbia University. He served as the former chair of the university’s Department of Political Science. He held the National Opinion Research Center Study Director position of the University of ...