Policy analysis : concepts and practice
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Policy analysis : concepts and practice
Prentice Hall, c1999
3rd ed
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
For one-semester, senior/graduate-level courses in Introduction to Policy Analysis, Fundamentals of Public Policy, Policy Analysis, Public Policy, Public Finance, Cost-Benefit Analysis, and Government and Business. This introduction explores both the hows and whys of the practices of public policy. The text provides reality-based practical advice about how to actually conduct policy analysis and demonstrates the application of advanced analytic techniques.
Table of Contents
I. INTRODUCTION.
1. Preview: The Canadian Salmon Fishery.
2. What Is Policy Analysis?
3. Toward Professional Ethics.
II. CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS.
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. DOING POLICY ANALYSIS.
10. Landing on Your Feet: How to Confront Policy Problems. Appendix: Gathering Information for Policy Analysis.
11. Goals/Alternatives Matrices: Some Examples from CBO Studies.
12. Benefit-Cost Analysis. Appendix: Measuring Consumer Surplus in the Presence of Income Effects.
13. Thinking Strategically About Adoption and Implementation.
IV. DOING POLICY ANALYSIS IN ORGANIZATIONAL SETTINGS.
14. Benefit-Cost Analysis in a Bureaucratic Setting: The Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
15. When Statistics Count: Revising the Lead Standard for Gasoline.
V. CONCLUSION.
16. Doing Well and Doing Good.
Index.
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