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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 | |