Aaron Wildavsky

Aaron Wildavsky (31 May 1930 - 4 September 1993) was an American political scientist known for his pioneering work in public policy, government budgeting, and risk management. A native of Brooklyn in New York, Wildavsky was the son of two Ukrainian Jewish immigrants. After graduating from Brooklyn College, he served in the U.S. Army and then won a Fulbright Fellowship to the University of Sydney for 1954-55. Wildavsky returned to the U.S. to attend graduate school at Yale University. His PhD dissertation, a study of the politics of the Dixon-Yates atomic energy controversy, was completed in 1958. Wildavsky taught at Oberlin College from 1958 until 1962, when he moved to the University of California at Berkeley and where he worked as a...