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Kay, W.D. |
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Problem definitions and policy contradictions: John F. Kennedy and the "Space Race" |
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2003 |
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p.53-69. |
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Feb |
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Usually, when governments appear to be pursuing contgradictory or mutually exclusive goals, the response of the scholarly community has been to look for evidence of bureaucratic error, a lack of leadership, or some other type of administrative malfunction. This essay argues that the concept of problem (or issue) definition, which has been widely applied in the study of public policy, may in some cases also help explain the occurrence of this phenomenon as well. Using as an example a major (and, atg the time, quite startling) policy "reversal" in President Kennedy's approach to the U.S. space program, the essay shows how the appearance of a "contradiction" within the administration may well have been the result of a disagreement over how U.s. space policy was to be defined. - Reproduced. |
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Space technology |
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Policy Studies Journal |
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