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2023

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D-Index
59
Citations
54894
World Ranking
113
National Ranking
66

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United States Leader Award
  • 1989 - John Gaus Award, American Political Science Association (APSA)
  • 1970 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Aaron Wildavsky was affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily focused on fields within the social sciences, particularly in sociology and political science.

Their work extensively addressed the topic of risk perception and management, contributing to the academic understanding of how societies perceive and handle risks.

Frequent collaboration occurred with Karl Dake, a co-author with whom Aaron Wildavsky worked on at least one occasion.

  • Risk Perception and Management

  • Sociology and Political Science

  • Social Sciences

  • Karl Dake

The scientist received notable recognition during their career, including the John Gaus Award from the American Political Science Association in 1989 and was named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1970.

Aaron Wildavsky's contributions to the academic community were situated within these research topics and fields until their passing, maintaining a presence in the study of political and social scientific inquiry into risk and its management.

Best Publications

  • Risk and Culture

    Michael Agar;Mary Douglas;Aaron Wildavsky

  • Risk and Culture: An Essay on the Selection of Technological and Environmental Dangers

    Mary Douglas;Aaron Wildavsky

  • Speaking Truth to Power: The Art and Craft of Policy Analysis

    Aaron B. Wildavsky

  • Searching for safety

    Aaron Wildavsky

  • The politics of the budgetary process

    Aaron B. Wildavsky

  • Risk and culture : an essay on the selection of technical and environmental dangers

    Mary Tew Douglas;Aaron B. Wildavsky

  • Choosing Preferences by Constructing Institutions: A Cultural Theory of Preference Formation

    Aaron Wildavsky

  • The New Politics of the Budgetary Process

    Aaron B. Wildavsky;Naomi Caiden

  • Theories of risk perception: Who fears what and why ?

    Aaron Wildavsky;Karl Dake

  • The Private Government of Public Money: Community and Policy Inside British Politics

    Hugh Heclo;Aaron B. Wildavsky

  • If Planning is Everything, Maybe It’s Nothing

    Aaron Wildavsky

  • A Theory of the Budgetary Process

    Otto A. Davis;M. A. H. Dempster;Aaron Wildavsky

  • A history of taxation and expenditure in the Western world

    Carolyn Webber;Aaron B. Wildavsky

  • The Two Presidencies

    Aaron Wildavsky

  • Planning and Budgeting in Poor Countries

    Naomi Caiden;Aaron B. Wildavsky

  • Speaking Truth to Power

    Aaron Wildavsky

  • The political economy of efficiency - Cost-benefit analysis, systems analysis, and program budgeting

    Aaron Wildavsky

  • If Dissemination Is the Solution, What Is the Problem ?

    Jack Knott;Aaron Wildavsky

  • The Art and Craft of Policy Analysis

    Aaron B. Wildavsky

  • But Is It True?: A Citizen's Guide to Environmental Health and Safety Issues

    Aaron B. Wildavsky

  • Budgeting : A Comparative Theory of Budgetary Processes

    Aaron B. Wildavsky

  • Political Culture and Political Preferences

    David D. Laitin;Aaron Wildavsky

  • The Self-Evaluating Organization

    Aaron Wildavsky

  • Towards A Predictive Theory of Government Expenditure: Us Domestic Appropriations

    Otto A. Davis;M. A. H. Dempster;Aaron Wildavsky

  • A Cultural Theory of Information Bias in Organizations

    Michael Thompson;Aaron Wildavsky

  • The Real World Order: Zones of Peace/Zones of Turmoil.

    Mac Destler;Max Singer;Aaron Wildavsky

  • The Politics of the Budgetary Process

    John M. de Grove;Aaron Wildavsky

  • The Politics of the Budgetary Process.

    Jonas Prager;Aaron B. Wildavsky

  • The Private Government of Public Money

    J. E. Hodgetts;Hugh Heclo;Aaron Wildavsky

Frequent Co-Authors

Mary Douglas
Mary Douglas University College London
Daniel J. Elazar
Daniel J. Elazar Bar-Ilan University
M. Kent Jennings
M. Kent Jennings University of California, Santa Barbara
Amitai Etzioni
Amitai Etzioni George Washington University
Sidney Verba
Sidney Verba Harvard University
Michael J. Boskin
Michael J. Boskin Stanford University
Michael Thompson
Michael Thompson International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Anatol Rapoport
Anatol Rapoport University of Toronto
Kenneth E. Boulding
Kenneth E. Boulding University of Colorado Boulder
Elinor Ostrom
Elinor Ostrom Indiana University

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