Policy Science

Applying Knowledge on Behalf of Human Dignity

Greetings:

This site contains papers of the International Scientific Networks and Government Learning projects, and related professional writing of Lloyd Etheredge. It includes a reference copy of the annotated bibliography of Harold D. Lasswell's work prepared by Rodney Muth et al. and published in 1990: References. (For books, other publications, and teaching materials, and annotations of key works by Ithiel de Sola Pool, see my academic homepage.)

I. International Scientific Networks Project

A. Major Papers

B. Working Papers

II. Government Learning Project

A. Overviews, Literature Reviews and Related Work

B. Modeling Non-Rational Behavior

. (See also the sections on ideology and economic behavior, and international relations, below).

C. Domestic Policy (including ideological assumptions, economics, and science policy)

[The suggestion (represented in some of the papers and correspondence, below) for a competitive test of ideological assumptions, in the tradition of the Michelson-Morley experiment in physics, is independent of my (hierarchical images) model of ideological passions and beliefs. It may be helpful to say that I do not believe that the truths about social and economic policy issues lie at a single point along the current liberal-conservative dimension in American politics. And they may not lie along this dimension at all.]

D. International Relations

See also "Hardball Politics" and "On Being More Rational Than the Rationality Assumption" in Modeling Non-Rational Behavior (above) and Can Governments Learn? on my academic homepage.)

E. Other


Contact: Lloyd Etheredge. If you reached this Web page while searching for papers on national health policy, that's my brother, Lynn Etheredge. (Re policy learning, his "On the Archeology of Health Care Policy: Periods and Paradigms, 1975 - 2000" published by the Institute of Medicine in 2001 might be of interest.)

To view the papers, you will need the (free) Adobe Acrobat Reader.

I have included a References page on this site, with current documents that are helpful to understand the Internet, several documents and hard-to-locate citations from papers, and misc. items. And a brief Biography page.

The Policy Sciences Center Inc. is a public foundation created at Yale Law School in 1948 by Harold D. Lasswell, Myres McDougal, and George Dession.

This page was last updated on April 7, 2008.