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The term ‘strategy’ has a variety of meanings, such as: a detailed set of planned responses to all possible contingencies in theory of games; fundamental policies and overall postures in strategic analysis dealing with foreign relations and defence; and main goals and principles for operations which serve as a framework for ‘tactics’ in military planning.
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See Yehezkel Dror, Ventures in Policy Sciences (New York, American Elsevier and Amsterdam, Elsevier, 1971), 3, 264.
Yehezkel Dror, Ventures in Policy Sciences (New York, American Elsevier and Amsterdam, Elsevier, 1971), 264.
Distinguished exceptions include for instance, Dwight Waldo, The Administrative State (New York, Ronald Press, 1948)
S. N. Eisenstadt, The Political Systems of Empires (New York, Free Press, 1963)
Gerald Caiden, Administrative Reform (Chicago, Aldine Publishing Co., 1969).
A policy analysis network is a morphological decomposition of an issue into components structured as a coherent programme for analysis and decision. See Yehezkel Dror, Ventures in Policy Sciences, 3.
For such a general theory, see Yehezkel Dror, Public Policymaking Reexamined (Scranton, Chandler, 1968).
Compare Yehezkel Dror, Ventures in Policy Sciences, chapter 19.
For a stimulating and readable treatment, see Howard Raiffa, Decisions Analysis: Introductory Lectures on Choices under Uncertainty (Reading, Massachusetts, Addison-Wesley, 1968).
This point, as well as some other advantages of incremental change (such as intellectual manageability and political feasibility) are best discussed in David Braybrooke and Charles E. Lindblom, A Strategy of Decision (New York, Free Press, 1963).
Compare Yehezkel Dror, ‘Comprehensive Planning: Common Fallacies Versus Preferred Features’, in F. van Schagen (ed.), Essays in Honour of Professor Jac. P. Thijsse (The Hague, Mouton, 95–99, and Ventures in Policy Sciences, chapter 11.
Compare Albert Hirschman, The Strategy of Economie Development (New Haven, Yale University Press, 1958), which provocatively discusses the strategy of deliberately unbalancing an economy in order to achieve accelerated growth. It is interesting to consider the role of comprehensive and innovative administrative reform as a shock strategy directed at the social system as a whole. This is an important possibility to be considered among the overall goals for administrative reform.
When we regard some of the futures of some of the variables as endogenous, that is, as themselves objectives for administrative system operations directed at influencing the future, then we get into one of the possible goals of administrative reform — namely, in creasing the capacity of an administrative system to shape the future. See Yehezkel Dror, ‘Some Requisites of Organisations Better Taking into Account the Future’, in Robert Jungk & Johan Galtung (eds.), Mankind 2000 (London, Allen & Unwin, 1969), 286–290, and Ventures in Policy Sciences, chapter 6.
On policy sciences, see Yehezkel Dror, Design for Policy Sciences (New York, American Elsevier and Amsterdam, Elsevier, 1972).
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Dror, Y. (1976). Strategies for Administrative Reform. In: Leemans, A.F. (eds) The Management of Change in Government. Institute of Social Studies, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1383-3_5
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