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| The World of Polity Analysis | |
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| Science, Values, and Policy Analysis | |
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| The Postmodern Challenge | |
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| Social Work and Competing in the Policy Analysis Arena | |
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| Value Neutrality, Value Relevance, and Critical Thinking | |
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| Value Neutrality | |
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| Value Relevance | |
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| Value Analysis and Objectivity | |
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| Critical Thinking and Professional Impartiality | |
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| Skill Building Exercises | |
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| The Purpose of Policy Analysis | |
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| Rationales for Public Policy | |
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| Market Considerations | |
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| Traditional Market Failures | |
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| Distributional and Other Goals | |
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| Social Welfare Functions | |
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| Human Dignity: Equality of Opportunity and Floors of Consumption | |
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| Skill Building Exercises | |
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| Approaches to Policy Analysis | |
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| Views of the Appropriate Role of the Policy Analyst | |
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| A Typology of Roles | |
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| Objective Technician | |
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| Client's Advocate | |
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| Issue Advocate | |
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| Advocacy, Ethics, and Policy Analysis | |
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| Formulation of Policy Agendas and Alternatives: What Should Be Done? | |
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| Deciding on an Appropriate Kind of Analysis | |
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| Root Causes Versus Pragmatic Adjustment | |
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| Comprehensive Analysis Versus Short-term Relevance | |
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| Consensual Versus Contentious Analysis | |
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| Rational Analysis Versus Democratic Politics | |
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| Foci of Policy Analysts | |
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| Policy as Product | |
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| Policy as Process | |
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| Policy as Performance | |
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| Skill Building Exercises | |
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| Policy as Product | |
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| Evaluating Policy Proposals | |
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| General Considerations About Policy as Product | |
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| Select Criteria for Evaluating Policy Proposals | |
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| Effectiveness | |
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| Efficiency | |
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| Equity | |
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| Liberty | |
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| Political Feasibility | |
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| Social Acceptability | |
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| Administrative Feasibility | |
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| Technical Feasibility | |
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| Stigmatization, Target Efficiency, and Trade-Offs | |
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| Substitutability | |
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| Descriptive Summary of Policy Products | |
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| Who Gets What? | |
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| Skill Building Exercises | |
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| Matching Policy Proposals to Problems | |
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| Fit With Analysis of Social Problem | |
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| Correspondence Between Social Problem Theory and Program Theory | |
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| Correspondence Between Eligibility Rules and the Ideology of the Social Problem Analysis | |
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| Correspondence Between Eligibility Rules and the Target Specifications of the Social Problem Analysis | |
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| Criteria Specific to Eligibility Rules | |
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| Stigmatization | |
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| Off-Targeted Benefits | |
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| Trade-Offs in Evaluating Eligibility Rules | |
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| Vertical and Horizontal Equity | |
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| Overwhelming Costs, Overutilization, and Underutilization | |
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| Work Incentives, Disincentives, and Eligibility Rules | |
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| Procreational Incentives, Marital Instability, and Generational Dependency | |
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| How Is the Policy or Program Financed? | |
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| Funding Sources of Social Welfare | |
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| Skill Building Exercises | |
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| Costs, Benefits, and Risks | |
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| Development of Cost-Benefit Analysis | |
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| Cost-Benefit Analysis as Organized Common Sense | |
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| Steps to Cost-Benefit Analysis | |
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| Identifying Important Benefits and Costs | |
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| Illustrating Benefits and Costs to Schooling | |
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| Measurement in Monetized Terms | |
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| Sensitivity Analysis | |
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| Monetizing Impacts and Shadow Pricing | |
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| Distributional Effects and Weights of Costs to Benefits | |
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| Risk Assessment | |
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| Skill Building Exercises | |
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| Applying Cost-Benefit Analysis | |
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| An Illustration of Cost-Benefit Analysis: Taxing Alcohol to Save Lives | |
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| Some General Considerations | |
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| Reliance on Prior Studies | |
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| Estimating the Effects of a Tax on Alcohol | |
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| Estimating the Social Surplus Losses in the Wine and Liquor Markets | |
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| Estimating Reductions in Fatalities Caused by Young Drivers and Older Drivers | |
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| Determine Whether Quantified Effects Belonged in the Calculation of Net Benefits | |
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| Estimating Benefits Under Different Assumptions About How Well Young/Older Drivers Are Informed About the Risks of Drinking and Driving | |
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| Assigning a Dollar Amount to Avoided Fatalities and the Value of Life | |
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| Determining How Much Injuries/Dam ages Count as Benefits Under Different Demand Assumptions | |
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| Estimate Net Benefits Under Uninformed, Informed, and Best Guess | |
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| Summary of How Alcohol Taxation Illustrates the Basic Craft and Art of Cost-Benefit Analysis | |
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| Identifying Alternatives | |
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| Development of Typologies | |
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| Comparison With Ideal | |
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| Feasible Manipulations | |
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| Modifying Existing Solutions | |
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| Methods of Dealing With Multiple Criteria for Identifying and Selecting Among Alternatives | |
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| Skill Building Exercises | |
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| Policy as Process | |
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| Making Policy | |
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| Making Policy and Responding to Social Problems | |
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| Making Laws | |
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| Conceptual and Theoretical Considerations | |
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| Practical Considerations | |
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| Skill Building Exercises | |
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| Implementing Policy | |
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| Some General Considerations | |
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| Theoretical Considerations | |
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| Practical Considerations | |
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| The Role of Street-level Bureaucrats | |
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| Skill Building Exercises | |
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| Policy as Performance | |
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| Approaches to Evaluation | |
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| General Considerations | |
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| The Main Approaches to Evaluation | |
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| Pseudo-Evaulation | |
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| Social Systems Accounting | |
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| Social Experimentation | |
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| Social Auditing | |
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| Research and Practice Synthesis | |
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| Formal Evaluation | |
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| Decision-Theoretic Evaluation | |
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| Skill Building Exercises | |
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| Evaluation, Values, and Theory | |
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| Values and Evaluation | |
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| Evaluator Valuing Roles | |
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| The Relative Distancing of Values and Evaluation | |
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| The Role of Theory in Program Evaluation and Policy Analysis | |
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| Explanatory and Justificatory (Normative) Theories | |
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| Theory-Oriented Evaluations | |
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| Skill Building Exercises | |
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| Epilogue: A Holistic Framework for Policy Analysis | |
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| General Principles, Guidelines, and Standards of Evaluation Practice | |
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| An Overarching Framework for Program Evaluation and Policy Analysis | |
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| Skill Building Exercises | |
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| Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) Core Competencies | |
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| Historical Overview of Policy Analysis and Policy Studies | |
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| Historical Roots | |
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| Twentieth Century: First Half-The Quest for Objectivity | |
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| Twentieth Century: World War II and Afterward | |
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| Policy Studies | |
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| Proliferation of Think Tanks | |
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| Skill Building Exercises | |
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| Websites | |
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| Glossary | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |