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From Harvard to the Himalayas — a career’s worth of lessons in confronting corruption, elitism, inequality, and despair through rigorous policy analysis.
Author: Robert Klitgaard
Year: 2023
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars
Topics: Policy Analysis, Corruption, Elitism, Inequality, Development, Governance
About This Book
What can a policy analyst actually do about the world’s biggest problems — corruption, elitism, inequality, despair?
Policy Analysis for Big Issues is an anthology drawn from Robert Klitgaard’s career spanning Harvard, the RAND Corporation, Claremont Graduate University, and fieldwork across four continents. The settings range from Harvard seminar rooms to the Himalayas, from La Paz to Manila, from Washington think tanks to African villages.
The book is both a practical guide to policy analysis and an honest reckoning with its limits — what rigorous analysis can achieve, where it falls short, and what happens when good analysis meets bad politics. Available in hardback, paperback and ebook from Cambridge Scholars Publishers.
Praise
“Bob Klitgaard is a world-class one-man think- and do-tank. This book is at once a collection of his greatest hits, a tempting introduction to his extraordinarily rich and diverse body of work, and a call to action on what are still some of the most pressing issues in global development today.”
RT HON JESSE NORMAN, Minister of State and Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom
“In nine rigorously analytical books, Klitgaard has examined challenges of implementing high-minded policy in the real world. This well-crafted anthology of concluding chapters encourages previous readers to go back and savor favorite passages. New readers are in for a treat!”
IAN D. CLARK, Distinguished Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy and former Secretary of the Treasury Board of Canada, co-creator of Atlas of Public Management
“Over a prolific career that has tackled some of the wickedest of policy problems, Bob Klitgaard has demonstrated a remarkable ability to distill complexity into insight and to serve up the result with energizing clarity.”
KARTHIK RAMANNA, Professor of Business and Public Policy, University of Oxford!
Related Work
Related themes: Policy Analysis | Anti-Corruption & Integrity | International Development
Related books: Controlling Corruption | Adjusting to Reality | The Culture and Development Manifesto