Charles E. Lindblom
Charles E. Lindblom ( Charles Edward Lindblom; born March 21, 1917 in Stanislaus County , California , † January 30, 2018 in Santa Fe , New Mexico ) was Sterling Professor of Political Science and Economics at Yale University . He was also President of the American Political Science Association and the Association for Comparative Economic Studies, and Director of the Yale Institution for Social and Policy Studies .
Life
Lindblom studied at Stanford University in Berkeley and at the University of Chicago , where he received his doctorate in economics in 1945. He was briefly at the University of Minnesota and then moved to Yale in 1946. In 1971 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
Lindblom developed the Muddling Through model (1959). Among other things, it builds on the work of Anthony Down's bureaucracy theory and Herbert A. Simon's model of limited rationality . He deals with questions of decision theory and the actual rules according to which decisions are made in practice, especially in politics and administration.
He was a representative of incrementalism .
Publications (selection)
- Essays
- The Science Of "Muddling Through". In: Public Administration Review. Vol. 19, 1959, doi: 10.2307 / 973677 , pp. 79-88 ( PDF; 1.796 MB )
- Still Muddling, Not Yet Through. In: Public Administration Review. Vol. 39, 1979, doi: 10.2307 / 976178 , pp. 517-526
- Books
- Unions and Capitalism. Yale University Press, 1949
- with David Braybrooke: A Strategy of Decision: Policy Evaluation As A Social Process. Free Press, 1963
- The Intelligence of Democracy. Decision making through mutual adjustment. Free Press, New York 1965
- The Policy-Making Process. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs 1968; 2nd edition, ibid. 1980, ISBN 0-13-686543-7 ; 3rd edition with Edward J. Woodhouse ibid. 1993, ISBN 0-13-682360-2
- with Robert A. Dahl : Politics, economics, and welfare. Planning and politico-economic systems resolved into basic social processes. Chicago 1976; Transaction Publ., New Brunswick 1992, ISBN 1-560-00575-0
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Politics and Markets. The World's Political-Economic Systems. 1977
- Beyond the market and the state. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-12-911860-8 ; Ullstein, Frankfurt / Berlin / Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-548-39065-X
- with David K. Cohen: Usable Knowledge. Social Science and Social Problem Solving (= Yale fastback. Vol. 21). Yale University Press, New Haven 1979, ISBN 0-300-02335-9
- Inquiry and Change: The Troubled Attempt to Understand and Shape Society. Yale University Press, 1990, ISBN 0300056672
- The Market System. What It Is, How It Works, and What to Make of It. Yale University Press, New Haven 2001, ISBN 0-300-09334-9
Web links
- Charles Lindblom on the Yale University website
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lindblom, Charles E. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lindblom, Charles Edward |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American political scientist and economist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 21, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stanislaus County , California |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 30, 2018 |
| Place of death | Santa Fe , New Mexico |