political science

Something similar is true of those reading and writing about politics and public policy. We think in ways that previous work has ...

The chapter begins with the sense of similarity and the literature on convergence and diVusion between countries. This is import ...

this sequence may be explained in two ways, either because countries C and D reached a requisite level of development sometime a ...

technological, economic, and political) system. But Scho ̈n is interested in learning and change under conditions of instability ...

from experiment can and should be applied to the next comparable instance. But ‘‘the loss of the stable state means that it won’ ...

groups which keep getting in each other’s way. Such is the setting for social learning’’ (Heclo 1974 , 308 ). Nevertheless, lear ...

In many respects, then, it casts the theory of public policy making as a theory of learning. A belief system is organized in thr ...

Hall’s argument is that the shift from Keynesianism to monetarism was not made on rational or scientiWc grounds alone. Since the ...

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and Duguid 2000 ). 13 To knowthatdepends on the accumulation and assimilation of information; knowinghowcomes through practice. ...

rational, scientiWc one. We learn with others as much as from others. 16 GeoVrey Vickers, for example, thinks his way into a sea ...

relate appropriate information and experience, knowing what is appropriate to us because they know us. They help us to see ourse ...

policy is designed on the basis of evidence from experience or elsewhere. Usually, too, conXicting evidence and argument makes s ...

same token, some situations and contexts are more conducive to learning than others, and a powerful claim can be made that socia ...

5.2 Cognition and Communication Learning begins in uncertainty: if there were no uncertainty, there would be no need for puzzlin ...

subsequently revised. This means that public policies and the environments in which they operate are engaged in a process of mut ...

of learning, John Dewey. It is this that leads Heclo to assert that ‘‘Apart from the policy process there were no ‘problems’, on ...

Comparison entails the use or production of categories to describe cases, which is something we usually do no more than half-con ...

Browne, A. and Wildavsky,A. 1983. Implementation as exploration. Reprinted inImple mentation: How Great Expectations in Washingt ...

Lave, J., and Wenger,E. 1991 .Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation. Cam bridge: Cambridge University Press. La ...