Pragmatism and the origins of the policy sciences : rediscovering Lasswell and the Chicago School / William N. Dunn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dunn, William N., author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in public policy

Elements in public policy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lasswell, Harold D. (Harold Dwight), 1902-1978.

Lasswell, Harold D.

University of Chicago. Department of Philosophy--History--20th century.

University of Chicago.

University of Chicago. Department of Philosophy.

Policy sciences--Study and teaching (Higher)--Illinois--Chicago--History--20th century.

Policy sciences.

Pragmatism--History--20th century.

Pragmatism.

History.

Policy sciences--Study and teaching (Higher).

Illinois--Chicago.

Physical Description:

71 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Summary:

This Element presents an examination of the origins of the policy sciences in the School of Pragmatism at the University of Chicago in the period 1915-38. Harold D. Lasswell, the principal creator of the policy sciences, based much of his work on the perspectives of public policy of John Dewey and other pragmatists at Chicago. Characteristics of the policy sciences include orientations that are normative, policy-relevant, contextual, and multi-disciplinary. These orientations originate in pragmatist principles of the unity of knowledge and action and functionalist explanations of action by reference to values. These principles are central to the future development of the policy sciences.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [63]-71).

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781108730518

1108730515

OCLC:

1090428290