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If knowledge is power, then John Hird has opened the doors for anyone interested in public policymaking and policy analysis on the state level. A beginning question might does politics put gasoline or sugar in the tank? More specifically, in a highly partisan political environment, is nonpartisan expertise useful to policymaking? Do policy analysts play a meaningful role in decision making? Does policy expertise promote democratic decision making? Does it vest power in an unelected and unaccountable elite, or does it become co-opted by political actors and circumstances? Is it used to make substantive changes or just for window-dressing? In a unique comparative focus on state policy, Power, Knowledge, and Politics dissects the nature of the policy institutions that policymakers establish and analyzes the connection between policy research and how it is actually used in decision making. Hird probes the effects of politics and political institutionsparties, state political culture and dynamics, legislative and gubernatorial staffing, partisan think tanks, interest groupson the nature and conduct of nonpartisan policy analysis. Through a comparative examination of institutions and tes

Author

Hird, John A.

Publisher

Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9781589010499

Subjects

Social Science, Science, Political Science