ABSTRACT
Policy analysis was not invented in Germany. Rather, both the term and the fi rst concepts of policy analysis were imported from the United States. Such a conceptual transfer across the Atlantic is nothing new or unusual for political science in Germany. Even the whole discipline of political science had been (re-)established in Germany after the Second World War with the help of the American administration (Bleek 2001, 265-307). Policy analysis had precursors in the German academic tradition, the so-called Polizeywissenschaft (Maier 1966). Yet this tradition was rediscovered-one could even say: reinvented-by the discipline as a whole only after policy analysis became important in the United States (Beyme 1985; Bleek 2001, 72-76; Hartwich 2004). The turn towards policy was a challenge to academic political science on both sides of the Atlantic.
