Книга: Aaron Wildavsky «But it is True ? A Citizen?s Guide to Environmental Health&Safety Issues (Paper)»
Производитель: "Неизвестный" But it is True ? A Citizen?s Guide to Environmental Health&Safety Issues (Paper) ISBN:9781568843889 Издательство: "Неизвестный" (1995)
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Aaron Wildavsky
Aaron Wildavsky (
A native of
Wildavsky taught at
Wildavsky was president of the
Wildavsky was a noted scholar on
In "Searching for Safety" (1988), Wildavsky argued that
Wildavsky was a prolific
He died of lung cancer. ["But Is It True?" (1995) in preface]
Anticipation and resilience strategies for managing risk
Wildavsky argued that a mixed strategy of anticipation and resilience is optimal for managing risk. Anticipation is beneficial, but if employed as the sole strategy the law of diminishing returns makes is unactractive, impractical, impossible and even counter productive (it consumes resources better spent on resilience). We should accept to live with small accidents and mishaps and not try to prevent "all" future hazards. He argued that adding safety devices to nuclear power plants beyond a certain point would be detrimental to safety. [Searching for safety (1988) chapter 6] This critique is a fundamental attack on the
The question, as always. is one of proportion (How much of each strategy?) and relevance (What kinds of dangers deserve the different strategies?), and ultimately, given uncertainty, of bias (When in doubt, which strategy should receive priority?).Trial and error is a device for courting small dangers in order to avoid or lessen the damage from big ones. Sequential trials by dispersed decision makers reduce the size of that unknown world to bite-sized, and hence manageable, chunks. An advantage of trial and error, therefore, is that it renders visible hitherto unforeseen errors. Because it is a discovery process that discloses latent errors so we can learn how to deal with them, trial and error also lowers risk by reducing the scope of unforeseen dangers. Trial and error samples the world of as yet unknown risks; by learning to cope with risks that become evident as the result of small-scale trial and error, we develop skills for dealing with whatever may come our way from the world of unknown risks [Searching for safety (1988):37] .
elect Publications
*"Dixon-Yates: A Study in Power Politics". 1962.
*"Politics of the Budgetary Process". 1964. Little, Brown.
*"Presidential Elections: Strategies of American Electoral Politics". 1964. Scribner. (with Nelson Polsby).
*"Implementation: How Great Expectations in Washington are Dashed in Oakland; or, Why it’s Amazing that Federal Programs Work at All". 1973.
*"Planning and Budgeting in Poor Countries". 1974. Wiley. (with Naomi Caiden).
*"The Private Government of Public Money: Community and Policy Inside British Politics". 1974. Macmillan. (with Hugh Heclo).
*"Budgeting: A Comparative Theory of Budgetary Processes". 1975. Little, Brown.
*"Speaking Truth to Power: The Art and Craft of Policy Analysis". 1979. Little, Brown.
*"Risk and Culture: An Essay on the Selection of Technical and Environmental Dangers". 1982.
*"The Nursing Father: Moses as a Political Leader". 1984.
*"A History of Taxation and Expenditure in the Western World". 1986.
*"Choosing Preferences by Constructing Institutions: A Cultural Theory of Preference Formation." "
*"Searching for Safety". 1988. Transaction Books.
*"The Deficit and the Public Interest: The Search for Responsible Budgeting in the 1980s". 1989.
*"Public Administration: The State of the Discipline". 1990. Chatham House Publishers. (edited with Naomi Lynn).
*"Cultural Theory". 1990.
*"But Is It True?: A Citizen’s Guide to Environmental Health and Safety Issues". 1995.
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External links
* [http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/listofholdingshtml/finding_aids_w.html Aaron Wildavsky Manuscript regarding "Dixon-Yates: A Study of Power Politics", Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library]
ources
Pace, Eric. 1993. "Aaron Wildavsky, A Budgeting Expert And Researcher, 63." "
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