Policy Analysis

Concepts and Practice

David L. Weimer, Aidan R. Vining (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

486 Seiten

1998 | 3rd edition
Routledge (Verlag)
9780131090835 (ISBN)

Infos

Suitable for one-semester, senior/graduate-level courses in Introduction to Policy Analysis, Fundamentals of Public Policy, Policy Analysis, Public Policy, and Public Finance, this book explores both the hows and whys of the practices of public policy. It provides reality-based practical advice about how to conduct policy analysis.

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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.

Inhalt

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.11.1998
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 228 x 153 mm
• Gewicht: 609 g
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• ISBN-13: 9780131090835 / 9780131090835
• Zustand: Neuware