{"product_id":"order-without-design-9780804717267","title":"Order Without Design","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on 18 months of observation and participation in the work of the policy office of the US Department of Energy, the author fully investigates the conditions that create the paradox and the positive as well as the negative implications of the process of information production.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It's a gem-clear, well-written, and sharply focused. It addresses important issues that cross disciplines, outlines its arguments well, and provides useful examples drawn from observations and interviews. It presents a persuasive conception of decision making in an organizational context.\" -Peter K. Manning ,Michigan State University \"A splendid book... What I find most attractive is Feldman's uncanny ability to boil down a most uncertain matter to a swiftly moving interpretive tale that gets past disciplinary interests to wrestle with policy formulation in the warrens of a government bureaucracy. It is a book that anyone seriously attempting to account for the making of policy will have to address.\" -John Van Maanen ,Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I. Introduction: 1. The paradox of producing information  2. Interpretation in decision making and policy making  3. Method and data  Part II. What Bureaucratic Analysts Do: 4. Report writing  5. tasks that contribute to report writing  6. The work of bureaucratic analysts  Part III. Contribution to Policy Making: 7. Rationality, interpretation, and inventories  8. Properties of the inventory  9. Problem sovling versus interpretation: from the bureaucratic analysts' perspective  Part VI. Implications: 10. Bureaucratic analysts and their work  11. Organizing analysts  12. The production of information  Appendices  Bibliography  Index.","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405410541911,"sku":"9780804717267","price":20.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804717267.jpg?v=1730491412","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/order-without-design-9780804717267","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}