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Just What is a Policy, Anyway? And Who's Supposed to Make it?

A Survey of the Public Administration and Policy Texts

Boston College

Twenty administration and policy texts are surveyed with respect to two major questions: (1) How do they define the nature and boundaries of the "administrative policy making process "and (2) How do they understand politics? The author finds that the texts give us a picture of American politics that resembles the `formless void" of Arthur Bentley's Process of Government: distinctions and dichotomies have broken down; the "policymaking process" has become a phenomenon virtually without boundaries; and politics has been swallowed by administration.

Administration & Society, Vol. 19, No. 4, 423-452 (1988)
DOI: 10.1177/009539978801900404


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