The power of public ideas

Издательство:  Ballinger Publishing Company

ISBN: 0-88730-128-2

The Power of Public Ideas thoroughly examines these critical and hotly debated questions. Edited and contributed to by one of America’s most respected political and economic thinkers, and containing essays by an impressive roster of experts, The Power of Public Ideas offers a controversial, timely, and inclusive analysis of the impact of the public interest on government policy making. The distinguished contributors contend that public ideas about what is good for all of us do count. Public ideas determine how public problems are defined, how solutions are understood, and how responsibilities for undertaking such solutions are allocated among government, private and non-profit institutions, and individual citizens. They approach these issues from varied disciplines of law, psychiatry, economics, public administration, political science, and communications; they also bring to bear extensive professional experience in government, politics, and the media.