Comment on Theodore J. Lowi's 'The State in Politics: The Relation Between Policy and Administration'
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I am of the generation of students of political science who grew up with Lowi's maxim that policy causes politics, and I have spent a fair amount of time trying to classify policies according to various schemes proposed since Lowi's initial effort almost twenty years ago. Like many in my cohort, I found Lowi's idea attractive and the classification scheme provocative but could never really decide where to draw the lines separating the categories. Besides, the agencies that were of most interest to me (especially the older ones) always seemed to administer several different types of policy. However, Lowi's theory does seem to contain an important perspective on public policy formation, even if many of us have trouble applying this perspective.
Source Publication
Regulatory Policy and the Social Sciences
Source Editors/Authors
Roger G. Noll
Publication Date
1985
Recommended Citation
Ferejohn, John A., "Comment on Theodore J. Lowi's 'The State in Politics: The Relation Between Policy and Administration'" (1985). Faculty Chapters. 509.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/509
