Knights, Dragons, and the Holy Grail

From the menu offered to contributors to this symposium, I have chosen to reflect on the ways in which policy analysis might or might not make a substantial contribution to a good society if we found ourselves in one, and to achieving that desired state (a constructive transition or good society transition). Subsequent sections comment on the role for policy analysis in a good soci ety, obstacles to contributions to a good society transition, steps to weaken those obstacles, and the imperative to relate good soci ety transition contribution attempts to matters beyond the bound aries of any single nation-state.1 The impediments to and ameliorations for enhanced contribu