Aaron Wildavsky

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Aaron Wildavsky is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Berkeley, Yale University, Oberlin College, Brooklyn College

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#169

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Bachelors Political Science Brooklyn College

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According to Wikipedia, Aaron Wildavsky was an American political scientist known for his pioneering work in public policy, government budgeting, and risk management. Early years A native of Brooklyn in New York, Wildavsky was the son of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants. After graduating from Brooklyn College, he served in the U.S. Navy and then won a Fulbright Fellowship to the University of Sydney for 1954–55. Wildavsky returned to the U.S. to attend graduate school at Yale University. His PhD dissertation, a study of the politics of the Dixon-Yates atomic energy controversy, was completed in 1958.

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Aaron Wildavsky's Published Works

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Risk and Culture: An Essay on the Selection of Technological and Environmental Dangers (1983) (2266)
Risk and Culture (1983) (1248)
The Politics of the Budgetary Process. (1965) (1113)
Speaking Truth to Power: The Art and Craft of Policy Analysis (1979) (1086)
Searching for Safety (1990) (1031)
Choosing Preferences by Constructing Institutions: A Cultural Theory of Preference Formation (1987) (900)
Risk and culture : an essay on the selection of technical and environmental dangers (1983) (760)
Wealthier is healthier. (1980) (652)
If planning is everything, maybe it's nothing (1973) (537)
A Theory of the Budgetary Process (1966) (466)
The New Politics of the Budgetary Process (1989) (466)
Budgeting : A Comparative Theory of Budgetary Processes (1975) (414)
The Private Government of Public Money (1975) (411)
A History of Taxation and Expenditure in the Western World (1986) (392)
If Dissemination Is the Solution, What Is the Problem ? (1980) (335)
The Art and Craft of Policy Analysis (1980) (291)
Planning and Budgeting in Poor Countries (1974) (279)
The two presidencies (1998) (264)
The Real World Order: Zones of Peace/Zones of Turmoil (1994) (232)
But is it true? : a citizen's guide to environmental health and safety issues (1997) (217)
The Self-Evaluating Organization (1972) (209)
Rescuing Policy Analysis from PPBS (1969) (199)
The political economy of efficiency - Cost-benefit analysis, systems analysis, and program budgeting (1966) (195)
The Policy Cycle (1979) (176)
Public Administration: The State of the Discipline (1990) (164)
The Private Government of Public Money: Community and Policy inside British Politics (1974) (161)
Political Culture and Political Preferences (1988) (153)
Towards A Predictive Theory of Government Expenditure: Us Domestic Appropriations (1974) (150)
No Risk Is the Highest Risk of All (1979) (137)
A Budget for all Seasons: Why the Traditional Budget Lasts (1978) (135)
A CULTURAL THEORY OF INFORMATION BIAS IN ORGANIZATIONS (1986) (128)
Why the Traditional Distinction between Public and Private Goods Should be Abandoned (1991) (125)
Doing better and feeling worse: the political pathology of health policy. (1977) (116)
Political Implications of Budgetary Reform (1961) (116)
How Can We Know the Risks We Face? Why Risk Selection Is a Social Process1 (1982) (107)
On Change: Or, There is No Magic Size for An Increment (1979) (105)
Information As An Organizational Problem (1983) (93)
Urban Outcomes: Schools, Streets, and Libraries (1976) (90)
Individual Differences in Risk Perception and Risk-Taking Preferences (1991) (81)
Why Self-Interest Means Less Outside of a Social Context (1994) (80)
Comprehensive Versus Incremental Budgeting in the Department of Agriculture (1965) (78)
The Nursing Father: Moses As a Political Leader (1984) (74)
The Goldwater Phenomenon: Purists, Politicians, and the Two-Party System (1965) (70)
A Proposal to Create a Cultural Theory of Risk (1982) (64)
An Operational Approach to Policy Analysis: The Craft: Prescriptions for Better Analysis (1997) (61)
Leadership in a small town (1964) (57)
Presidential Elections: Strategies of American Electoral Politics (1964) (53)
Perspectives on the Presidency (1975) (50)
The Deficit and the Public Interest: The Search for Responsible Budgeting in the 1980s (1992) (49)
Policy analysis is what information systems are not (1978) (48)
Ubiquitous Anomie: Public Service in an Era of Ideological Dissensus (1988) (45)
Culture and social theory (1996) (43)
A cultural theory of expenditure growth and (Un)balanced budgets (1985) (41)
"Political knplicavtons of Budget Reform:" A Retrospective (1992) (41)
The politics of mistrust (1981) (39)
The Moral Collapse of Communism : Poland as a Cautionary Tale (1991) (38)
Aaron Wildavsky and the Demise of Incrementalism@@@The New Politics of the Budgetary Process@@@Budgeting: A Comparative Theory of Budgetary Processes (1989) (37)
A Methodological Critique of Duverger's Political Parties (1959) (37)
Budgeting and Governing (2000) (37)
Requisites of radical reform: Income maintenance versus tax preferences (1987) (36)
On the process of budgeting: An empirical study of congressional appropriation (1966) (35)
Presidential elections : contemporary strategies of American electoral politics (1988) (35)
Why Planning Fails in Nepal (1972) (34)
Reconsidering the two presidencies (1989) (34)
The Political Economy of Efficiency: Cost-Benefit Analysis, Systems Analysis, and Program Budgeting (1966) (32)
Congressional Control of Administration. (1964) (32)
Craftways: On the Organization of Scholarly Work (1991) (31)
Indispensable Framework or Just another Ideology? (1992) (29)
A Cultural Analysis of the Role of Abolitionists in the Coming of the Civil War (1990) (28)
An immodest agenda: Rebuilding America before the twenty-first century (1983) (28)
Dilemmas of Presidential Leadership: From Washington through Lincoln (1989) (28)
Federalism and Political Culture (1997) (26)
A poverty of distinction (1986) (26)
Change in political culture (1985) (25)
The procedural presidency of George Bush (1992) (25)
But is it true (1995) (25)
The Politics of Mistrust: Estimating American Oil and Gas Resources (1981) (24)
Accounting for the environment (1994) (24)
Dixon-Yates : a study in power politics (1962) (23)
The Two Presidencies (1966) (21)
The budgeting and evaluation of Federal recreation programs : or, Money doesn't grow on trees (1975) (21)
The Analysis of Issue-Contexts in the Study of Decision-Making (1962) (21)
Reading with a purpose (1988) (20)
Democracy as a coalition of cultures (1993) (20)
American federalism in perspective (1967) (20)
Can norms rescue self‐interest or macro explanation be joined to micro explanation? (1991) (19)
A Pluralistic Model of Culture@@@Cultural Theory. (1991) (18)
Exaggerated danger (1994) (18)
Assimilation versus Separation: Joseph the Administrator and the Politics of Religion in Biblical Israel (1992) (18)
On species loss the absence of data and risks to humanity. (1984) (15)
Understanding organizational change: OMB and GAO -- A review (1988) (15)
Should Evaluation Become Implementation (1983) (15)
The Beleaguered Presidency (1991) (14)
Economy and environment/rationality and ritual: A review essay (1976) (14)
Policy as Its Own Cause (1979) (13)
Species loss revisited (1992) (12)
A Bias Toward Federalism: Confronting the Conventional Wisdom on the Delivery of Governmental Services (1976) (12)
Survival Must Not Be Gained Through Sin: the Moral of the Joseph Stories Prefigured Through Judah and Tamar (1994) (12)
From chaos comes opportunity: the movement toward spending limits in American and Canadian budgeting (1983) (11)
A cultural theory of budgeting (1988) (10)
Budgetary Control in a Decentralized System: Meeting the Criteria for Fiscal Stability in the European Union (1994) (10)
Beyond Containment: Alternative American Policies Toward the Soviet Union (1983) (10)
From Individual to System Blame: A Cultural Analysis of Historical Change in the Law of Torts (1989) (10)
The Politics of Mistrust: Estimating American Oil and Gas Reserves. (1981) (10)
On Being a Department Chair (1992) (9)
Social experimentation in the face of formidable fables (1986) (9)
What Other Theory Would Be Expected to Answer Such Profound Questions? A Reply to Per Selle's Critique of Cultural Theory (1991) (9)
SEARCHING FOR SAFETY. STUDIES IN SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY AND POLICY NO. 10 (1988) (9)
Policy Analysis as a Vocation (1981) (9)
On the Superiority of National Conventions (1962) (9)
Strategic Retreat on Objectives: Learning from Failure in American Public Policy (1979) (8)
Why policies control data and data cannot determine policies (1984) (8)
The secret of safety lies in danger (1989) (8)
Public Authority and the Public Interest (1989) (8)
The Great Detente Disaster: Oil and the decline of American foreign policy (1975) (8)
Nuclear Power Regulation Seeking Safety , Doing Harm ? (8)
The federal budget : economics and politics (1983) (8)
Why Communism Collapses: The Moral and Material Failures of Command Economies are Intertwined (1990) (7)
A World of Difference— The Public Philosophies and Political Behaviors of Rival American Cultures (1990) (7)
Oil and the Decline of Western Power (1975) (7)
Between Planning and Politics : Intellect vs. Interaction as Analysis (1979) (7)
Review: Social Science Research and Policy (1990) (7)
Economy and Environment Rationality and Ritual (1976) (7)
TVA and Power Politics (1961) (7)
Playing it safe is dangerous. (1988) (6)
Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff . By Arthur M. Okun. (Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1975. Pp. 124. $6.95.) (1977) (6)
A Program of Accountability for Elementary Schools. (1970) (6)
President reagan as political strategist (1987) (6)
Rights and regulation : ethical, political, and economic issues (1984) (6)
National budgeting for economic and monetary union (1993) (6)
The rise of radical egalitarianism and the fall of academic standards (1989) (5)
Norms and Rules to Facilitate Convergence on Budget Balance (1993) (5)
How to limit government spending : or, How a constitutional amendment tying public spending to economic growth will decrease taxes and lessen inflation ... (1980) (5)
What Is Permissible So That This People May Survive? Joseph the Administrator (1989) (5)
Keeping Kosher: The Epistemology of Tax Expenditures (1985) (5)
Studies in Australian Politics. The 1926 Referendum.@@@The Fall of the Bruce-Page Government. (1959) (5)
Who laughs at what? (1994) (4)
U.S. foreign policy: perspectives and proposals for the 1970s (1969) (4)
Catholics and the Free Society, An Australian Symposium. (1962) (4)
A Tax by Any Other Name: The Donor-Directed Automatic Percentage-Contribution Bonus, a Budget Alternative for Financing Governmental Support of Charity (1976) (4)
Making ends meet: The social malleability of needs and resources (1990) (4)
Reply to Cornes and Sandler (1994) (4)
THE TRANSFORMATION OF BUDGETARY NORMS (1983) (3)
The ‘Multicultural’ Mill (1993) (3)
If Institutions Have Consequences, Why Don't We Hear About Them From Moral Philosophers? (1989) (3)
The richest boy in poltava (1975) (3)
Four Reasons Not to Cut Social Security Taxes (1990) (3)
Using public funds to serve private interests (1979) (3)
Pollution as Moral Coercion: Culture, Risk Perception, and Libertarian Values (1982) (3)
Modelling the US Federal Spending Process: Overview and Implications (1982) (3)
Evaluation as an organizational problem (1972) (3)
Finding universalistic solutions to particularistic problems: Bilingualism resolved through a second language requirement for elementary schools (1992) (3)
Has modernity killed objectivity? (1991) (3)
Changing Forward Versus Changing Back (1978) (3)
Citizens as Analysts (1979) (3)
Rationality in Writing: Linear and Curvilinear (1981) (3)
Analysis as Craft (1979) (3)
William R Meyers Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 1981 $19 95 (Cloth (1984) (2)
Viewpoint 2: The Debate Over Faculty Consulting (1978) (2)
Budgeting and the "People's Reform"@@@The Politics of the Budgetary Process@@@Government Budgeting@@@Contemporary Approaches to Public Budgeting@@@Budgetary Politics@@@The Budget and National Politics@@@Introduction to Budgeting@@@Congress and the Budget@@@Public Budgeting in America (1980) (2)
Opportunity Costs and Merit Wants (1979) (2)
Reply to Comedy of the Cowpats (1994) (2)
Budgetary Futures: Why Politicians May Want Spending Limits in Trubulent Times (1981) (2)
What would One have to Believe to Believe in Multiple Regression (1982) (1)
Exploring the content of McCarthyism (1955) (1)
Equality, Spending Limits, and the Growth of Government (1985) (1)
The fifth branch: Science advisers as poficymakers, by Sheila Jasanoff. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990, 302 pp. Price: $27.95 cloth (1992) (1)
Richard Nixon, president of the United States (1968) (1)
The Disabled State (1986) (1)
Efficiency as a Function of Culture (1991) (1)
Defense Politics: A Budgetary Perspective. By Kanter Arnold. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979. Pp. viii + 152. $12.50.) (1980) (1)
Politically correct hiring Will Destroy higher education (1994) (1)
HOUSING AND SLUM CLEARANCE UNDER THE AMERICAN FEDERAL SYSTEM. (1955) (1)
In What State Is the Discipline?@@@Public Administration: The State of the Discipline (1991) (1)
Amartya Sen, Equality Reexamined, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992 (1992) (1)
The Revolution in Fiscal Theory@@@The Politics of the Budgetary Process@@@Federal Aid to Depressed Areas@@@Public Expenditure (1965) (1)
Hobbes's natural man is a fatalist : implications of cultural theory for interpreting Hobbes and his critics (1994) (1)
The 1926 Referendum.@@@The Fall of the Bruce-Page Government. (1959) (1)
Improving the quality of life: Television repair (1979) (1)
SCHOOLS OF PUBLIC POLICY IN POOR COUNTRIES1 (1986) (1)
A Note on the Comment and Rejoinder (1982) (1)
Political cultures - eScholarship (1990) (1)
Evaluating Municipal Services@@@Municipal Output and Performance in New York City@@@The Delivery of Urban Services: Outcomes of Change@@@Urban Outcomes: Schools, Streets and Libraries@@@Equality and Urban Policy: The Distribution of Municipal Public Services (1979) (1)
Learning and nuclear safety: New reactors and US regulation (1992) (1)
A tax by any other name: The donor directed automatic percentage contribution bonus, a budget alternative for financing governmental support of charity (1976) (1)
Book reviews (1991) (1)
Idylls of the Constitution (1981) (0)
The Politics of Mistrust: Estimating American Oil and Gas Resources. (1982) (0)
Skepticism and Dogma in the White House: Jimmy Carter’s Theory of Governing (1979) (0)
PESC and Parliament: New Machines for Old Problems (1981) (0)
Teaching and Taking: A Seminar on Cultural Theory. (1988) (0)
What if the United States were still governed under the Articles of Confederation? : non-centralized versus federal systems - eScholarship (1993) (0)
Correspondence (1993) (0)
The Nuclear Family: The Treasury (1981) (0)
Learning from Education: If We’re Still Stuck on the Problems, Maybe We’re Taking the Wrong Exam (1979) (0)
ROBIN GOLLAN. Radical and Working Class Politics: A Study of Eastern Aus tralia, 1850-1910. Pp. xi, 226. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1960. $6.50 (1961) (0)
Regulating By the Numbers (1988) (0)
Book Review:Management Control and Information. R. Beresford Dew, Kenneth P. Gee (1974) (0)
Dogma versus Skepticism (1978) (0)
The Politics of Fiscal Policy Formation. By Pierce Lawrence C.. (Pacific Palisades: Goodyear Publishing Co., Inc., 1971. Pp. 224. $8.00.) (1972) (0)
On Character . By James Q. Wilson. Washington: American Enterprise Institute, 1991. 211p. $24.95. (1993) (0)
The Moral Dimension: Toward a New Economics . By Amitai Etzioni. New York: Free Press, 1988. 352p. $24.95. (1990) (0)
Studies in Australian Politics: The 1926 Referendum (1959) (0)
Special Symposium: The Governance of the Association (1969) (0)
Bureaucracy on Trial: Policy Making by Governmental Agencies, By William W. Boyer. (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1964. Pp. ix, 184, $1.95.) (1965) (0)
The Costs of Federalism in Honor of James W. Fesler (1984) (0)
Book reviews (1969) (0)
The Country Party Studies in Australian Politics (1959) (0)
Theda Skocpol's Protecting Soldiers and Mothers (1993) (0)
Nominating Committee Welcomes Suggestions (1987) (0)
Call for Papers: 1992 Annual Meeting (1991) (0)
Was nixon tough? Dilemmas of american statecraft (1978) (0)
No War Without Dictatorship, No Peace Without Democracy: Foreign Policy as Domestic Politics (1985) (0)
Letter from Aaron Wildavsky to Joshua Lederberg (1979) (0)
Campaign Management in Transition or "The Party's over"@@@The Management of Election Campaigns@@@The New Style in Election Campaigns@@@The Art of Politics: Electoral Strategies in Campaign Management@@@Yorty: Politics of a Constant Candidate@@@Election Campaign Handbook@@@Lyndon Johnson and the Amer (1978) (0)
Non-centralized versus federal systems, the Articles of Confederation versus the Constitution (1994) (0)
The Oakland Project - Action and research in a core city Final report (1970) (0)
"Trial Without Error" [Letter to the Editor of The American Scientist] (1979) (0)
How Real Is the Federal Deficit? By Robert Eisner (New York: Free Press, 1986. xv, 240 p. $17.95). (1987) (0)
Risk and culture (book review) (1983) (0)
Regulatory Policy and the Social Sciences.Roger G. Noll (1987) (0)
Book review: The New American Dilemma: Liberal Democracy and School Desegregation. By Jennifer L. Hochschild. (1986) (0)
[no title] (1967) (0)
Thanks for the commentary: Replies to critics and critiques (1989) (0)
APSA Awards and Recipients (1993) (0)
Kinship and Culture: The Expenditure Community (1981) (0)
Women's Caucus for Political Science Celebrates Its 25th Year (1994) (0)
The Costs of Federalism: Essays in Honor of James W. Fessler (1986) (0)
There Must Be a Better Way: PAR and the New Rationalism (1981) (0)
The Earthly City: Cabinets, Politicians and other Worldly Men (1981) (0)
Are American Political Parties Pretty Much the Same as They Used to Be in the 1950s, Only a Little Different, or Are They Radically Different? A Review Essay (1992) (0)
Douglas Wass, Government and the Governed, BBC Reith Lectures 1983, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984, pp. viii + 120, £3.95. (1984) (0)
Ubiquitous Anomie: Reflections and Rejoinder (1989) (0)
Thief: At long last a good movie about a capitalist (1982) (0)
Proposals which the Essayists Considered (1969) (0)
The Power of the Purse.Richard F. Fenno, Jr. (1967) (0)
The Making of the President—1964 . By Theodore H. White. (New York: Atheneum Publishers, 1965. Pp. 404. $6.95.) (1966) (0)
Village Life in Civil Service Society: Department—Treasury Bargaining (1981) (0)
Coordination Without a Coordinator (1979) (0)
Public Administration: The State of the Discipline.@@@Handbook of Public Administration. (1991) (0)
Letter from Aaron Wildavsky, Russell Sage Foundation to Joshua Lederberg (1978) (0)
The Industrial Policy Debate (1984) (0)
Book Review:The Divided Academy: Professors and Politics. Everett Carll Ladd, Jr., Seymour Martin Lipset (1976) (0)
PPB: Two Replies (1970) (0)
"Help, Ma, I'm being controlled by inanimate objects. (1991) (0)
Safety in a Technological Society@@@Searching for Safety (1989) (0)
Formaldehyde regulation. (1984) (0)
Defining risk. (1986) (0)
Regulation of Carcinogens (1996) (0)
On Collaboration (1986) (0)
American governmental institutions : a reader in the political process (1968) (0)
Let's Have a Motivation Crisis (1975) (0)
The runaway convention or proving a preposterous negative : a paper prepared for the Taxpayers' Foundation (1983) (0)
Culture and Conflicting Rationalities (1983) (0)
Appraising the evidence. (1992) (0)
The Politics of Advice: CPRS and the Government Centre (1981) (0)
Toward cultural institutional pluralism (1994) (0)
Studies in Australian Politics.@@@Public Expenditures in Australia. (1961) (0)
Books in review (1982) (0)
Book review (1992) (0)
ANALYSIS OF VACCINATION AGAINST PNEUMOCOCCAL PNEUMONIA A CASE STUDY: COST-EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS OF VACCINATION AGAINST PNEUMOCOCCAL PNEUMONIA (1996) (0)
Distribution of Urban Services (1979) (0)

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