In its modern Lasswell-like form, the original idea behind the field of
policy analysis was to put teams of experts—who would employ social
science theory and methods to put this problem solving process into
action—into the highest reaches of government (Dror 1968). The hope
(since proven naive) was that policy analysts would deal in facts more
than values; they would produce relatively objective assessments of
what would and what would not work for a given problem.