Symposium comment: On the new politics of public policy

John W. Ellwood
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John W. Ellwood: Professor of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley, Postal: Professor of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 1991, vol. 10, issue 3, 426-433

Abstract: The process is not the problem, the problem is the problem. Rudolph Penner (1984). …We argue the superiority of the outcome from the process, not of the process from the outcome. The constancy of the economist's objection to this conclusion when applied to governmental rather than market decisions simply often reflects the fact that, while some economists are not disturbed that consumer preferences lead to allocation policies other than best respond to their own tastes, when political preferences lead to governmental policies not consistent with his informed and considered preferences, they are tempted to attribute irrationality to government.

Date: 1991
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DOI: 10.2307/3325324

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