Policy formation and politics

Readings due before class on Thursday, December 5, 2019

Required

Important: PDFs of the readings are on iCollege.

• Keira Shae, “Dear American Taxpayers, Thank You for Saving My Life”
• Charles E. Lindblom, “The Science of ‘Muddling Through’”Charles E. Lindblom, “The Science of ‘Muddling Through’,” Public Administration Review 19, nos. 2, Spring (1959): 79–88.
  
  
• David Bornstein, “The Dawn of the Evidence-Based Budget,” The New York Times, May 30, 2012
• Esther Duflo, “Policies, Politics: Can Evidence Play a Role in the Fight Against Poverty”Esther Duflo, “Policies, Politics: Can Evidence Play a Role in the Fight Against Poverty?”   (Washington, D. C.: Center for Global Development, April 2011).