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Public Policy Analysis : An Introduction
ISBN: 9780136155546 | 0136155545
Edition: 4thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Pearson
Pub. Date: 10/1/2007
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For one semester/quarter courses in Public Policy and Public Policy Analysis. Public Policy Analysis introduces students to the process and methodology of public policy analysis. Using a problems-oriented and a multidisciplinary synthesis approach, this text bridges the gap between theory and practice. The text draws from political science, public administration, economics, decision analysis, and social and political theory to achieve the only integrated, multidisciplinary text on policy analysis currently available.
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| Preface to the Third Edition | |
| The Process of Policy Analysis | |
| The Process of Policy Inquiry | |
| Multidisciplinary Policy Analysis | |
| Policy-Relevant Information | |
| Policy-Informational Transformations | |
| Policy-Analytic Methods | |
| Three Cases of Policy Analysis | |
| Forms of Policy Analysis | |
| Retrospective and Prospective An... MORE | |
| Descriptive and Normative Analysis | |
| Problem Finding and Problem Solving | |
| Segmented and Integrative | |
| The Practice of Policy Analysis | |
| Reconstructed Logic versus | |
| Methodological Opportunity Costs | |
| Critical Thinking and Public Policy | |
| The Structure of Policy Arguments | |
| Dynamics of Argumentation, Public Discourse, and Debate | |
| Chapter Summary | |
| Learning Objectives | |
| Key Terms and Concepts | |
| Review Questions | |
| Demonstration Exercise | |
| References | |
| Multidisciplinary Policy Analysis-Benefits, Costs, and Consequences of Highway Safety | |
| Policy Analysis in the Policy-Making Process | |
| Some Historical Background | |
| Early Origins | |
| The Nineteenth-Century Transformation | |
| The Twentieth Century-And Beyond | |
| The Policy-Making Process | |
| Models of Policy Change | |
| Comprehensive Economic Rationality | |
| Second-Best Rationality | |
| Disjointed Incrementalism | |
| Bounded Rationality | |
| Mixed Scanning | |
| Erotetic Rationality | |
| Critical Convergence | |
| Punctuated Equilibrium | |
| Policy Analysis in the Policy Process | |
| Potential Uses of Analysis | |
| Uses of Analysis in Practice | |
| Chapter Summary | |
| Learning Objectives | |
| Key Terms and Concepts | |
| Review Questions | |
| Demonstration Exercise | |
| References | |
| Are Policy Analysts Technocrats? | |
| Structuring Policy Problems | |
| Nature of Policy Problems | |
| Beyond Problem Solving | |
| Characteristics of Problems | |
| Problems verses Issues | |
| Three Classes of P | |
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