The Science of Public Policy: Evolution of policy sciences, pt. 1

From William N. Dunn, Public Policy Analysis: An Introduction, Prentice-Hall,
1981, pp. 7-33 The social sciences have developed very largely through the
criticism of proposals for social improvements or, more precisely, through
attempts to find out whether or not some particular economic or political action is
likely to produce an expected, or desired, result. Karl R. Popper, The Poverty of
Historicism (1960) In its most general sense, policy analysis may be understood
as the process of ...