Policy Analysis Concepts and Practice

Name: Policy Analysis Concepts and Practice
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ISBN: 9780136831457

ISBN-10: 0136831451

ISBN-13: 9780136831457

Edition: 2nd 1992

Authors: David L. Weimer, Aidan Vining

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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…

Book details

List price: $46.67
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.91" wide x 9.06" long
Weight: 1.320
Language: English



Introduction


Preview: The Canadian Salmon Fishery


What Is Policy Analysis?


Toward Professional Ethics


Conceptual Foundations


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


Correcting Market and Government Failures: Generic Policies


Doing Policy Analysis


Landing on Your Feet: How to Confront Policy Problems


Gathering Information for Policy Analysis


Goals/Alternatives Matrices: Some Examples from CBO Studies


Benefit-Cost Analysis


Measuring Consumer Surplus in the Presence of Income Effects


Thinking Strategically About Adoption and Implementation


Doing Policy Analysis in Organizational Settings


Benefit-Cost Analysis in a Bureaucratic Setting: The Strategic Petroleum Reserve


When Statistics Count: Revising the Lead Standard for Gasoline


Conclusion


Doing Well and Doing Good


Index