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Policy Analysis : Concepts and Practice

ISBN: 9780136831457 | 0136831451
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference
Pub. Date: 8/1/1991

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SummaryTable of Contents
This introduction to both the hows and whys of the practices of public policy provides reality-based practical advice about how to actually conduct policy analysis and demonstrates the application of advanced analytic techniques. Covers such topics as Efficiency and the Idealized Competitive Model; Rationales for Public Policy (Market Failures, Other Limitations of the Competitive Framework, and Distributional and Other Goals); Limits to Public Intervention: Government Failures; Correcting Market and Government Failures: Generic Policies; How to Confront Policy Problems; Goals/Alternatives Matrices: Some Examples from CBO Studies; Benefit-Cost Analysis; Thinking Strategically About Adoption and Implementation; Benefit- Cost Analysis in Bureaucratic Settings: The Strategic Petroleum Reserve; When Statistics Count: Revising the Lead Standard for Gasoline. For anyone involved in Policy Analysis, Public Policy, Public Finance, Cost-Benefit Analysis.
Prefacevi(1)
Preface to the First Editionvii
PART I: INTRODUCTION1(29)
1 What Is Policy Analysis?
1(14)
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Policy Analysis and Related Professions
2(7)
Policy Analysis as an Emerging Profession
9(3)
Basic Preparation for Policy Analysis
12(3)
2 Toward Professional Ethics
15(15)
Analytical Roles
16(3)
Value Conflicts
19(8)
Ethical Code or Ethos?
27(3)
PART II: CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS30(171)
3 Rationales for Public Policy: Market Failures
30(48)
The Efficiency Benchmark: The Competitive Economy
31(1)
Market Efficiency: The Meaning of Social Surplus
32(9)
The Traditional Market Failures
41(36)
Conclusion
77(1)
4 Rationales for Public Policy: Other Limitations of the Competitive Framework
78(16)
Markets with Few Sellers or Few Buyers
78(1)
The Source and Acceptability of Preferences
79(3)
The Problem of Uncertainty
82(5)
Intertemporal Allocation: Are Markets Myopic?
87(3)
Adjustment Costs
90(2)
Conclusion
92(2)
5 Rationales for Public Policy: Distributional and Other Goals
94(18)
Social Welfare beyond Pareto Efficiency
94(4)
Substantive Values Other Than Efficiency
98(5)
Instrumental Values
103(4)
Some Cautions in Interpreting Distributional Consequences
107(4)
Conclusion
111(1)
6 Limits to Public Intervention: Government Failures
112(2)
Problems Inherent in Direct Democracy
113(6)
Problems Inherent in Representative Government
119(12)
Problems Inherent in Bureaucratic Supply
131(7)
Problems Inherent in Decentralization
138(4)
Conclusion
142
7 Correcting Market and Government Failures: Generic Policies
114(87)
Freeing, Facilitating, and Simulating Markets
145(7)
Using Subsidies and Taxes to Alter Incentives
152(16)
Establishing Rules
168(8)
Supplying Goods through Nonmarket Mechanisms
176(10)
Providing Insurance and Cushions
186(7)
Conclusion
193(2)
Appendix 7A: Empirical Evidence on the Relative Efficiency of Public Corporations and Private Firms
195(6)
PART III: DOING POLICY ANALYSIS201(142)
8 Landing on Your Feet: How to Confront Policy Problems
201(58)
Analyzing Yourself: Meta-Analysis
201(2)
The Client Orientation
203(1)
Steps in the Rationalist Mode
204(2)
Problem Analysis
206(16)
Solution Analysis
222(15)
Communicating Analysis
237(4)
Meta-Analysis Once Again: Combining Linear and Nonlinear Approaches
241(1)
Conclusion
242(2)
Appendix 8A: Gathering and Organizing the Data, Facts, and Evidence
244(15)
9 Benefit-Cost Analysis
259(53)
A Preview: Increasing Alcohol Taxes
260(1)
The Basic Concepts
260(27)
An Illustration: Taxing Alcohol to Save Lives
287(14)
A Closer Look at Several Selected Topics
301(10)
Conclusion
311(1)
10 Thinking Strategically about Adoption and Implementation
312(31)
The Adoption Phase
313(12)
The Implementation Phase
325(10)
Thinking Strategically about Policy Design
335(7)
Conclusion
342(1)
PART IV: ANALYSIS IN ORGANIZATIONAL SETTINGS343(64)
11 A Stylized Analysis: Canadian Airline Deregulation
343(14)
The Report
345(10)
Points to Note
355(2)
12 Benefit-Cost Analysis in a Bureaucratic Setting: The Strategic Petroleum Reserve
357(26)
Background: Energy Security and the SPR
357(6)
Analytical Approaches to the Size Issue
363(11)
The Role of Analysis in the SPR Size Controversy
374(7)
Conclusion
381(2)
13 When Statistics Count: Revising the Lead Standard for Gasoline
383(24)
Background: The EPA Lead Standards
383(2)
Origins of the 1985 Standards
385(1)
Pulling the Pieces Together
386(4)
A Closer Look at the Link between Gasoline Lead and Blood Lead
390(12)
Finalizing the Rule
402(2)
Conclusion
404(3)
PART V: CONCLUSION407(2)
14 Doing Well and Doing Good
407(2)
Index409

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