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Author / Creator:	Rivlin, Alice M., author.
Imprint:	Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2015. ©2015
Description:	1 online resource (xviii, 142 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	H. Rowan Gaither lectures in systems science.
Subject:	Evaluation research (Social action programs) -- United States. Program budgeting -- United States. Experimental design. Social problems -- Research -- United States. Evaluation research (Social action programs) Experimental design. Program budgeting. Social problems -- Research. United States. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11907678

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Other authors / contributors:	Shalala, Donna E., writer of foreword. Brookings Institution.
ISBN:	9780815726456 0815726457 0815726449 9780815726449
Notes:	"A Brookings classic." With a new preface by the author. First Brookings edition published 1971 - title page verso. "Originally delivered in January 1970 as the third H. Rowan Gaither Lecture, at the University of California, Berkeley"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-135) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	In January 1970 Alice M. Rivlin spoke to an audience at the University of California-Berkeley. The topic was developing a more rational approach to decisionmaking in government. If digital video, YouTube, and TED Talks had been inventions of the 1960s, Rivlin's talk would have been a viral hit. As it was, the resulting book, Systematic Thinking for Social Action, spent years on the Brookings Press bestseller list. Is is a very personal and conversational volume about the dawn of new ways of thinking about government. As deputy assistant secretary for program coordination, and.
Other form:	Print version: Rivlin, Alice M. Systematic thinking for social action 0815726449

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