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Article: Rational choice theory and the evaluation of public policy.(Symposium: The Politics of Policy)
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- Policy Studies Journal
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- September 22, 1998
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Theory and Values of Policy Choice
Judging and evaluating the substance, process, and results of governing are venerable preoccupations among scholars. Questions respecting the role of government in the economy are found in the work of the Physiocrats and in Adam Smith's Inquiry into the Wealth of Nations, as well as in the outpourings of contemporary social commentators, politicians, activists, and scholars. In our nation there have been long-standing discourses regarding proper, just, and effective policy. These have occurred in the august realms of scholarship as well as in the boisterous domains of popular discourse ranging across a host of issues, including ...