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Public Policy Analysis :An Introductory, 4/e, 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.

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 Analysis
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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Public Policy Analysis : An Introduction

Public Policy Analysis : An Introduction

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