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Systems Analysis in Public Policy : A Critique, Revised Edition
by Ida R. Hoos
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Overview
"Systems analysis has become one of America's big businesses. This book challenges with critical professional insight its mystique, methods, and products. The result is a highly readable, provocative treatise which should be of value to anyone who practices systems analysis, buys it, or simply is interested in finding out how much real truth there is in one of America's most fashionable and profitable intellectual games." --A. Alan Post, Legislative Analyst, California Legislature
"A superb book."--Contemporary Sociology "Offers a number of valuable insights into the applications of systems analysis in public policy. It provides a needed antidote to some of the more extreme claims of what the systems approach can accomplish."--Monthly Labor Review "A tremendously useful essay. . . . Hoos has provided a long overdue evaluation of these promises."--Worldview "The only adequate book-length critique of the systems approach to policy decision."--PerspectiveThis item is Non-Returnable
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- ISBN-13: 9780520415348
- ISBN-10: 0520415345
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publish Date: June 2024
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.94 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.27 pounds
- Page Count: 358
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