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Who advises our policy makers in Washington? What brings these advisors to the federal bureaucracy and keeps them there? And how do their clients and the bureaucratic context influence the choices they make in selecting, defining, and working on problems of public policy?In the late 1960s, professional policy advisorscalled policy analystsbegan to emerge in the Washington bureaucracy. Their to provide information and advice about the consequences of choosing different policies. Arnold J. Meltsner examines the various roles they asumed and the ways in which their priorities and methods were affected by the people they advised and the bureaucratic environment.Drawing on interviews with analysts and using his own experience as a government consultant, Meltsner shows how political and organizational considerations extended the boundaries of the advisor's role in a way that went far beyond the analyst's own notions of what policy analysis was. As the profession began to take shape, there were few standards of external organizations to set expectations for the analyst's work. As advisors on the inside, many policy analysts became adept at writing speeches and memos and making political c

Author

Arnold J. Meltsner; Claude Michaud

Publisher

Berkeley: University of California Press

Published

1976

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520029484

Subjects

Political Science, Sociology, Science

Rating

5 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14