Policy studies : integration and evaluation
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Policy studies : integration and evaluation
Praeger, 1988
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-293) and indexes
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Description
As the field's principal organizer and leading promoter, one is indebted to Nagel for his energy, enthusiasm, and resourcefulness. This volume is imbued with such qualities. It covers vast territory, insistently counters the skeptics, and develops original schema for evaluating the work of the field. Furthermore, as vintage Nagel, the book is highly structured, with many definitions, lists, and prenamed series of ideas. . . . Nagel is unswervingly convinced of the correctness of the rationalist perspective, and anchors himself firmly in behavioralist political science while accepting the contributions from other social sciences. Choice
The purpose of this work is twofold. First, it attempts to integrate the basic ideas that relate to policy studies. These include the definition of concepts, the establishment of criteria for judging policy studies researh, and the clarification of policy goals. Second, the volume proposes to evaluate the methods of policy evaluation themselves, and to assess the field as a whole. Designed to serve as a definitive analysis of policy studies, this volume covers basic concepts, research criteria, societal goals, and policy altenatives. It also examines analytic methods, optimizing, statistics, quasi-experimentation, behaviorism, multicriteria decison making, evaluation, research, legal analysis, and conflicting critiques of the field.
Table of Contents
Preface Part One: Basic Concepts and Criteris Basic Concepts in Public Policy Studies Criteria for Judging Policy Studies Research Part II: Policy Goals Effectiveness, Efficeincy, and Equity Doing Better Than the Optimum Part III: Goal-Achieving Means Incentives for Encouraging Socially Desired Behavior Public and Private Sectors for Administering Public Functions Part IV: Methods for Concluding and Sensitivity Analysis Optimizing Principles Optimizing Software Changing the Goal, Means, or Methods Part V: Evaluating Alternative Methods of Evaluation Diverse Perspective on Public Policy Analysis P/G% Compared with Other MCDM Approaches Part VI: Evaluating the Field of Policy Studies Being Innovative but Lasting, and Theoretical but Practical Being Multidisciplinary but Based in Politial-Science, and Value-Oriented but Quantitative Being Utilized and Multi-Ideological Part VII: Other Polilcy-Related Fields Evaluation Research and Policy Studies Law and Policy Studies Appendix 1. Using Microcomputers to Teach Public Policy Substance Appendix 2. Overview of the Policy Studies Literature
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