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Policy Analysis 4TH Edition Concepts & Practice

by David Leo Weimer

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Publisher Comments:

This book both introduces and explores the hows and whys of the practices of public policy. It provides reality-based practical advice about how to actually conduct policy analysis and demonstrate the application of advanced analytic techniques. A five-part organization emphasizes that policy analysis is client-oriented and raises ethical issues; provides rationales for public policy describing the limitations to effective public policy and generic policy solutions; gives practical advice about implementing policy analysis; presents several examples illustrating how analysts have approached policy problems and the differences that their efforts have made; and summarizes the role and work of the analyst and challenges the analyst to both “do-well and do-good.” For individuals interested in policy analysis and the analytical process.

Synopsis:

Fourth edition.
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Table of Contents

I. INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC POLICY ANALYSIS.
 1. Preview: The Canadian Salmon Fishery.

 2. What Is Policy Analysis?

 3. Toward Professional Ethics.

II. CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS FOR PROBLEM ANALYSIS.

 4. Efficiency and the Idealized Competitive Model.

 5. Rationales for Public Policy: Market Failures.

 6. Rationales for Public Policy: Other Limitations of the Competitive Framework.

 7. Rationales for Public Policy: Distributional and Other Goals.

 8. Limits to Public Intervention: Government Failures.

 9. Correcting Market and Government Failures: Generic Policies.

III. CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS FOR PROBLEM ANALYSIS.

10. Correcting Market and Government Failures: Generic Policy Instruments.

11. Adoption and Implementation.

12. Government Supply: Drawing Organizational Boundaries.

IV. DOING POLICY ANALYSIS.

13. Gathering Information for Policy Analysis.

14. Landing on Your Feet: How to Confront Policy Problems.

15. Goals/Alternatives Matrices: Some Examples from CBO Studies.

16. Benefit-Cost Analysis.

V. CASE STUDIES OF POLICY ANALYSIS.

17. Benefit-Cost Analysis in a Bureaucratic Setting: The Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

18. When Statistics Count: Revising the Lead Standard for Gasoline.

VI. CONCLUSION.

19. Doing Well and Doing Good.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780131830011
Subtitle:
Concepts and Practice
Author:
Weimer, David Leo
Author:
Weimer, David
Author:
Vining, Aidan R.
Author:
Weimer, David L.
Publisher:
Prentice Hall
Location:
Upper Saddle River, NJ
Subject:
Policy sciences
Subject:
Public Policy - General
Subject:
General Political Science
Copyright:
2005
Edition Number:
4
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Series Volume:
no F25
Publication Date:
July 2004
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
College/higher education:
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
501
Dimensions:
9.22x7.04x.94 in. 1.72 lbs.
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