Public Policy and a go-back to basics
A Contemporary Appraisal of Early Ideas
Abstract
Public policy is a living (and changing) field of study: Ideas about this field adapts to needs, evolve from accumulated experience, and are enriched from its interaction with other fields of human knowledge. This article presents some notes on the work of three key public policy scholars: Harold Lasswell, Charles Lindblom, and Giandomenico Majone. They best known texts are not replicated here, but some others that provide context and nuances to his ideas. Here, the novelty of the approach is the return to basics, approaching to those other texts and to asking us what other pieces from these key scholars remains there unexplored, for a better understanding on public policy. With the aspiration to complement the aspect of disciplinary refocusing, this text assumes that there are some little-explored ideas that can and should be traced to fully un-derstand the discipline.
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