Theory and practice in policy analysis : including applications in science and technology
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Theory and practice in policy analysis : including applications in science and technology
Cambridge University Press, 2017
- : pbk
Available at 5 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
-
National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies Library (GRIPS Library)
: pbk331.19||Mo4401447594
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Many books instruct readers on how to use the tools of policy analysis. This book is different. Its primary focus is on helping readers to look critically at the strengths, limitations, and the underlying assumptions analysts make when they use standard tools or problem framings. Using examples, many of which involve issues in science and technology, the book exposes readers to some of the critical issues of taste, professional responsibility, ethics, and values that are associated with policy analysis and research. Topics covered include policy problems formulated in terms of utility maximization such as benefit-cost, decision, and multi-attribute analysis, issues in the valuation of intangibles, uncertainty in policy analysis, selected topics in risk analysis and communication, limitations and alternatives to the paradigm of utility maximization, issues in behavioral decision theory, issues related to organizations and multiple agents, and selected topics in policy advice and policy analysis for government.
Table of Contents
- 1. Policy analysis: an overview
- Part I. Making Decisions that Maximize Utility: 2. Preferences and the idea of utility
- 3. Benefit-cost analysis
- 4. Decision analysis
- 5. Valuing intangibles and other non-market outcomes
- 6. Multi-attribute utility theory and multi-criteria decision making with Jared L. Cohon
- 7. Preferences over time and across space
- Part II. Some Widely Used Analysis Tools and Topics: 8. Characterizing, analyzing, and communicating uncertainty
- 9. Expert elicitation
- 10. Risk analysis
- 11. The use of models in policy analysis
- Part III. How Individuals and Organizations Actually Make Decisions: 12. Human mental processes for perception, memory, and decision making
- 13. Risk perception and risk ranking
- 14. Risk communication
- 15. Organizational behavior and decision making
- Part IV. The Policy Process and S&T Policy (Mainly) in the United States: 16. Analysis and the policy process
- 17. The period prior to World War II
- 18. US science and technology policy from World War II to 1960
- 19. Science and technology advice to government
- Appendices
- Index.
by "Nielsen BookData"