Development of policy sciences constitutes a main effort to reconstruct the role of intellectualism and rationality in human affairs. (Author)

A policy-oriented approach to law based on: law as one of many policy instruments, and, policy analysis (extension of systems analysis) as the methodology for identifying combinations of instruments to direct change. Behavioral study is discussed as essential part of the broad policy-making framework. (SE)

Public policymaking institutions and their operations should be viewed as complex systems, to be analyzed and improved with the help of basic general systems theory ideas and concepts. Possibilities of and needs for changes in the policymaking system can be illustrated by eleven improvement proposals: explicit strategy decisions, explicit learning…

In contrast to science and technology, public policymaking systems lack knowledge about the design and operation of overall social control. Policy sciences contribute to the understanding and improvement of large-scale control systems, especially in their attempt to give rationality to policymaking and decisionmaking activities. The most important…