Nuclear power plants, new vaccines and drugs, pesticides designed to improve agricultural production, and a plethora of other technological advances hold great promise of improving the quality of human life…

Aaron Wildavsky’s greatest concern, as expressed in his writings, is how people manage to live together

Of all the questions that might be asked about political life, it would be difficult to find one of greater interest than the ancient query: who rules over whom? It…

This book pays tribute to Aaron Wildavsky by explicating his life and work, with emphasis on his contributions to the field of public budgeting and finance

Offers a distinction between a zone of peace and a zone of turmoil that resonates as a straightforward distinction that possesses explanatory power and is embedded in a political insight.

The first edition of this seminal book in 1971 pointed out the fatal defects of Marxist theory that would lead to the collapse of the Soviet economy. In this revised…

Aaron Wildavsky, along with Mary Douglas, identified what they called grid-group theory

Taking their cue from the pioneering work of anthropologist Mary Douglas, the authors of Cultural Theory have created a typology of five ways of lifeegalitarianism, fatalism, individualism, hierarchy, and autonomyto…