ABSTRACT
Case-studies of the policy-making process constitute one of the more important methods of political science analysis. The analysis makes use of the best behavioral research techniques without losing sight of the rich context of policies, traditions, and institutions. It was inevitable that some general notions about power and public policy would develop out of the case-study literature. Together, these notions form what is variously called the group theory, the pressure-group, or the pluralist model of the democratic political system. Elitists might accommodate to the extraordinarily careful analysis and unimpeachable findings of American Business and Public Policy by treating the trade issues of the whole postwar period as "middle-level". To date, no study of policy can equal American Business and Public Policy in care, rigor, and exhaustiveness. Data of given amount and quality become a richer and richer source as the context of those data is better and better understood.
