The field of public policy as a whole seems to be having an identity crisis, reports James Piereson and Naomi Schaefer Riley in The Washington Post.
The schools’ curricula and missions have become at once too broad and too academic, too focused on national and global issues at the expense of local and state-level ones. It’s not clear that the schools are preparing their graduates to fix all that needs fixing.… Lofty goals have often produced research and teaching that is further and further removed from the day-to-day operations of government. … Many schools have begun to look like a mishmash of the academic departments from which their faculty members hail — such as political science, economics and sociology.
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