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Library of Congress Catalog Number: 2005050644
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Wildavsky, Aaron B.
Cultural analysis / Aaron Wildavsky; edited with an introduction by
Brendon Swedlow.
v. <1> cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7658-0239-2 (alk. paper)
1. Political cultureUnited States. 2. United StatesPolitics and
governmentPhilosophy. I. Swedlow, Brendon. II. Title.
JK1726.W53 2005
306.220973dc22 2005050644
ISBN 13: 978-0-7658-0239-2 (hbk)
No one labored longer and harder than Aaron Wildavsky to make this fourth volume of his posthumously published papers possible. With the exception of two co-authored chapters, he wrote all of the pieces and, shortly before his untimely death in 1993, selected the papers to be included here. Thankfully, with this work, he is with us still.
More recently, Wildavskys widow, Mary Wildavsky, created, and James Tansey, finalized, the updated bibliography of cultural theory applications, critiques, and reviews included with this volume. This bibliography lists not only Wildavskys work, but that of dozens of other scholars, many of whom helped provide the citations found there. Many thanks to all of you!
Wildavskys former colleagues, Robert Kagan and Austin Ranney, and students, Dennis Coyle and Richard Ellis, at the University of California, Berkeley, performed the great service of providing insightful, substantive introductions for essays covering three disciplinary subfields and other aspects of academic life. All readers are indebted to you, including, especially, me.
For unwavering commitment to this enterprise, Irving Louis Horowitz, Mary Curtis, and Laurence Mintz at Transaction Publishers have no equal. In the twelve years since Wildavskys death, they have seen to publication four new collections of Wildavskys papers, with a fifth to come, have re-issued new editions of other of Wildavskys works, and keep a number of others in print. Thanks for your steadfast support and guidance.
Most of the heavy lifting on this volume was done at the Survey Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley in the first couple of years after Wildavskys death. During that time, Wildavsky long-serving administrative assistant, the late Doris Patton, tracked down original manuscripts, obtained permissions to re-publish, cleaned-up the considerable typographical errors introduced by first-generation scanning technology, converted endnotes to a common citation format, and re-integrated them with the manuscripts for all four volumes.
Sasha Dolbrovsky, Janna Israel, Elise Knowles, and Jamie Molden of Berkeleys Odin Corporation did the tedious scanning or redigitalization of these collections. Wildavskys colleagues Henry Brady and Percy Tannenbaum oversaw production of these volumes, including my work and that of my co-editors on the other volumes, David Schleicher and Sun-Ki Chai. Many thanks again to all of you!
The editorial work on this volume was supported in its initial phase by grants from the Bradley, Earhart, and Smith Richardson Foundations. At the time of his death, Aaron Wildavsky held the Class of 1940 Chair in Political Science and Public Policy at Berkeley, which also contributed support for his continuing work, as did the Survey Research Center, his main workspace on the Berkeley campus from 1979 until his death.
More recently, my wife, Chandra Hunter Swedlow; my family and friends, Duke Universitys Center for Environmental Solutions, and my colleagues in political science at Northern Illinois University have supported my editorial work finalizing this volume. Many, many thanks to all of you as well.
Finally, many thanks to the these publishers for giving permission to re-publish Wildavskys work in this collection:
first appeared in Anthony King, ed., The New American Political System, second version (Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute, 1990), 263286.
first appeared in Comparative Studies in Society and History, 32, 1, (1990): 89116.
first appeared in Journal of Policy History, 4, 2, (1992): 228247.
first appeared in Claude E. Barfield and William A. Schambra, eds., The Politics of Industrial Policy (Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute, 1986), 1532.
first appeared in Presidential Studies Quarterly, 23, 3, (1993): 437444.
first appeared in Journal of Policy History, 1, 2, (1989): 129155.
first appeared in The Public Interest, 78, (Winter 1985): 3242; and was reprinted in Aaron Wildavsky, The Rise of Radical Egalitarianism (Washington, D.C.: American University Press, 1991), 169179.
first appeared in University of San Francisco Law Review, 22, 4, (1988): 841855.
first appeared in The Public Interest, 98, (Winter 1990): 98117; and was reprinted as The Crime of Inequality: The Bork Nomination, in Aaron Wildavsky, The Rise of Radical Egalitarianism (Washington, D.C.: American University Press, 1991), 193212.
first appeared in Politics [the Journal of the Australasian Political Science Association], 20, 2, (1985): 95102.
first appeared in Naomi B. Lynn and Aaron Wildavsky, eds., Public Administration: The State of the Discipline (Chatham, N.J.: Chatham House, 1990), xiiixix.
first appeared in Jan-Erik Lane, ed., Bureaucracy and Public Choice (London: Sage Publications, 1987), 283294.
first appeared in Bryan D. Jones, ed., Leadership and Politics: New Perspectives in Political Science (Lawrence: University of Press of Kansas, 1989), 87113.
first appeared in Journal of Management Studies, 23, 3, (1986): 273286.
first appeared in Academic Questions, 2, 4, (1989): 5255; and was reprinted in Aaron Wildavsky, The Rise of Radical Egalitarianism (Washington, D.C.: American University Press, 1991), 233241.
first appeared in Political Science Teacher, 1, 1, (1988): 35.
Brendon Swedlow
DeKalb, Illinois