Alan Walter Steiss

Policy analysis: The undisciplined discipline

Policy analysis is an amorphous, multi-disciplinary, adademic pursuit in search of a professional focus. This discussion surveys the parameters of this pursuit and outlines the basic ingredients of a professional perspective. Argument is made for a multi-faceted, yet integrative approach which appreciates both the rational and trans-rational elements of public policy and which is anchored in a mixture of technical expertise and public regardedness.

Programming for Governmental Operations: The Critical Path Approach

A S PUBLIC AGENCIES strive to carry out their increasing responsibilities more effectively, new management techniques must be employed to promote efficiency and economy in governmental operations. During the past decade, a number of important developments have occurred in the fields of production scheduling and industrial management. Progressive, competitive managements in industry and business have come to recognize the decisionmaking and managerial control potential made possible through the use of automated data processing equipment, programmed with advanced managerial systems, and applied in conjunction with the techniques of network analy-