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Article: Public policy: assessing the state of the contemporary literature. (four genres of public policy research)
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- Policy Studies Journal
- Article date:
- September 22, 1994
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The study and teaching of public policy is still perceived by many scholars to be some sort of illegitimate offspring, perhaps even a mongrelized discipline deriving whatever credibility it has attained from the more traditional disciplines of economics, statistics, political science, and sociology. The durability of the research outlets Policy Studies Journal and Policy Studies Review, a continued demand for policy-oriented programs and courses in universities, as well as the success of "policy wonks" such as Bill Clinton, however, suggests (to paraphrase the great American author Mark Twain) that reports of the death of the field of public policy have been highly ...