Author: Aaron Wildavsky
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: craftways
Number of Pages: 170
Published: 1993-01-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 156000696X
ISBN-13: 9781560006961

The one subject that serious students want most to know about, other than their specialty, is how academic life is lived and how scholarly work is carried out. Their curiosity is equally shared by those interested in how to improve the quality and quantity of their work. With few exceptions, the time honored word-of-mouth approach is all there has been until now; how one works is rarely a subject seriously discussed in print. Craftways is intended to address these concerns and needs. Aaron Wildavsky has long been admired as one of the most productive political scientists of his generation.

Author: Aaron Wildavsky
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: masses, revolt
Number of Pages: 498
Published: 2002-10-23
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0765809605
ISBN-13: 9780765809605

From antiquity to the present, many have written on the subject of beauty, but precious few have done so with the capacity to themselves to write beautifully. The Sense of Beauty is that rare exception. This remarkable early work of the great American philosopher, George Santayana, features a quality of prose that is as wondrous as what he had to say. Indeed, his summation remains a flawless classical statement. "Beauty seems to be the clearest manifestation of perfection, and the best evidence of its possibility. If perfection is, as it should be, the ultimate justification of being, we may u

Author: Aaron Wildavsky
Publisher: Transaction Books
Keywords: safety, searching
Number of Pages: 356
Published: 1988
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0912051183
ISBN-13: 9780912051185

Author: Aaron Wildavsky
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: governing, budgeting
Number of Pages: 393
Published: 2006-08-30
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1412806259
ISBN-13: 9781412806251

Aaron Wildavsky’s greatest concern, as expressed in his writings, is how people manage to live together. This concern may at first appear to have little to do with the study of budgeting, but for Wildavsky budgeting made living together possible. Indeed, as he argues in "Budgeting and Governing", now available in paperback, if you cannot budget, you cannot govern. Wildavsky wrote about budgeting because, in his words, "when a process involves power, authority, culture, consensus, and conflict, it captures a great deal of national political life." Wildavsky was interested in budgeting bec

Author: Aaron Wildavsky
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: presidency, beleaguered
Number of Pages: 367
Published: 1991-01-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1560007540
ISBN-13: 9781560007548

Wildavsky demonstrates how various recent presidents have attempted to escape or overcome their beleaguered status by such devices as focusing on only a few issues or shedding responsibility (or blame) to other actors, or treating policy problems as if they were essentially administrative in nature. The book analyes the wide divergence on public policy among Democratic and Republican activists and assesses the efforts of presidents from Nixon through Bush to cope, at times successfully, often not, with these divisions.

Author: Aaron Wildavsky
Publisher: Univ of California Pr
Keywords: spending, government, limit
Number of Pages: 163
Published: 1980-07
List price: $22.50
ISBN-10: 0520042271
ISBN-13: 9780520042278

Author: Aaron Wildavsky
Publisher: Shalem Press
Keywords: leader, political, moses
Number of Pages: 325
Published: 2005-04-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 9657052319
ISBN-13: 9789657052310

"Aaron Wildavsky, a giant of American political science, brings his profound understanding of human affairs to bear on the founding of the world’s most enduring political community, the nation of Israel. At a time in which we are rediscovering the indispensability of resolute and perspicacious leadership, Wildavsky’s brilliant study of Moses as founding father illuminates not only the Jewish past but the enduring political questions of how to build and preserve a decent, righteous, and stable community, here and hereafter. A marvelous book!" - Leon Kass, University of Chicago