Moreover, an emphasis on the policy process moved research away from a strict adherence to the study of public administration and institutions, which was increasing in political science, and of quasi-markets, which was the predilection of economics. Thus, it helped to retionalize a new problem-oriented perspective markedly different from its disciplinary predecessors. The cumulative analyses of the various stages clearly demonstrated Lasswell’s insistence on a multidisciplinary approach to the policy sciences, as well as the interactive effects among the different stages. Finally, the policy process framework readily permitted the explicit inclusion of social norms and personal values, a component too often neglected or ignored in contemporary political and economic examinations.