ABSTRACT
This book concentrates on policymaking without taking up particular issues and proposing specific policies, but complete detachment of pol icymaking from the substantive contents of policies may result in too ethereal a treatment that loses contact with reality. After all, human and societal processes take place within specific media and in concrete contexts that shape their configurations. A “pure” theory of policymaking is possi ble and useful and was the main subject matter of Public Policymaking Reexamined (Dror 1983a). But, as there is a difference between painting a picture and managing a war, so there are differences in policymaking de pending on domains and fields.
