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Rejoinder to mead

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  • Laurence E. Lynn

    (Professor in the School of Social Service Administration and in the Graduate School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago)

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As I understand him, Mead makes two arguments. First, he argues that relying on reasoning from general principles to answer practical questions of public management can be misguided if the policy analyst deliberately or inadvertently ignores available evidence. Of course he is right. As the purpose of the symposium was to invite public management scholars to use general principles to decide on the relative merits of mandatory and voluntary workfare, however, the authors, who are not experts in welfare reform, cannot be faulted for being unfamiliar with the evidence. It was their intellectual approaches to the problem that I sought to broach.

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  • Laurence E. Lynn, 1990. "Rejoinder to mead," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 9(3), pages 405-408.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:jpamgt:v:9:y:1990:i:3:p:405-408
    DOI: 10.2307/3325285
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    1. Mary Jo Bane, 1989. "Welfare reform and mandatory versus voluntary work: Policy issue or management problem?," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 8(2), pages 285-289.
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