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5 Pol'y Stud. J. 4 (1976-1977)

handle is hein.journals/plyssjnl5 and id is 1 raw text is: Press, 1977). Other publishers considering the publication of paperback versions include Alfred Publishers, University of Illinois Press, Transaction Books, and Temple University Press. All the PSO-Sage Yearbooks in Politics and Public Policy are now available in paperback from Sage Publications. Since mentioning various symposia grants in the summer PSJ Organization and Journal Developments, we have received a favorable response from the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation with regard to funding our present symposium on Administering Public Policy; the Department of Agriculture for the symposium on Agricultural Policy Issues to be edited by Don Hadwiger of Iowa State, Dick Fraenkel of Purdue, and Bill Browne of Central Michigan; and the University of Delaware for the symposium on Minorities and Policy Studies to be edited by Marian Palley of Delaware and Michael Preston of Illinois. Our finances are also looking better by virtue of the royalties we are anticipating from our Lexington, Sage, and Praeger book series. We owe a debt of gratitude to the editors and chapter authors for those books, nearly all of whom have contributed their royalties as well as their intellectual labor to the Policy Studies Organization. We hope our members will encourage their libraries to order those books and to subscribe to the Policy Studies Journal, and that our members will also adopt the clothbound, paper- bound, or journal versions of the symposia for main or sup- plementary reading in their classes where appropriate. Doing so will increase awareness of the relevance of political science to important policy problems, and help stimulate further related research and utilization. The symposium in the present issue deals with Adminis- tering Public Policy under the editorship of H. George Frederickson and Charles R. Wise. George is the president- elect of the American Society for Public Administration and Charles is an ASPA council member. They and their contribu- tors represent an important interchange between public admin- istration and policy studies. They especially emphasize the need for considering problems of administration in evaluating alternative public policies. Those problems are sometimes neglected by some social scientists who tend to evaluate policies without adequately considering their administrative and legislative feasibility. This issue also includes a survey by Milton Cummings of the important but not so well- known policy field of art, literature, and music. It further includes some insights by Bill Coplin on the teaching of policy studies which represent an advance view on the teaching symposium which he is developing. II. SYMPOSIUM ON ADMINISTERING PUBLIC POLICY A. INTRODUCTION BY THE SYMPOSIUM EDITORS Charles R. Wise, Indiana University H. George Frederickson, University of Missouri In Public Administration, the policy-administration dichotomy has been dead for some time. The search for objec- tive or value free administrative theory and approaches is appropriately viewed as a futile exercise. Nonetheless,