Aaron wildavsky biography

Aaron Wildavsky (May 31, 1930 – September 4, 1993)^[1] was an American political scientist known for his pioneering work in public policy, government budgeting, and risk management.

Early years

A native of Brooklyn in New York, Wildavsky was the son of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants. After graduating from Brooklyn College, he served in the U.S. Navy 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.

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His PhD dissertation, a study of the politics of the Dixon-Yates atomic energy controversy, was completed in 1958.

Career

Wildavsky taught at Oberlin College from 1958 until 1962, then lived and worked in Washington D.C for a year before moving to the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked as a professor of political science for the rest of his life.

At Berkeley, he was chairman of the political sciencedepartment (1966–1969) and foundi