Revised edition of Policy analysis, 2011. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Preface -- Introduction to public policy analysis -- Preview -- What is policy analysis? -- Toward professional ethics -- Conceptual foundations for problem analysis -- Efficiency and the idealized competitive model -- Rationales for public policy : market failures -- Rationales for public policy : other limitations of the competitive framework -- Rationales for public policy : distributional and other goals -- Limits to public intervention : government failures -- Policy problems as market and government failure : the madison taxicab policy analysis example -- Conceptual foundations for solution analysis -- Correcting market and government failures : generic policies -- Adoption -- : implementation -- Government supply : drawing organizational boundaries -- Doing policy analysis -- Gathering information for policy analysis -- Landing on your feet : organizing your policy analysis -- Case study : the canadian pacific salmon fisher -- Cost-benefit analysis : assessing efficiency -- Public agency strategic analysis : identifying opportunities for increasing social value -- Conclusion -- Doing well and doing good -- Name index -- Subject index.
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