Analyzing Policy

Subtitle:
Choices, Conflicts, and Practices
Author:
Michael C. Munger
Format:
Softcover

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Analyzing Policy

Short description

This is an advanced level textbook for third year students studying courses in public policy and public administration. It approaches the subject with material on how to do policy analysis, illustrating the mechanisms available for choosing policy.

Long description

This is an advanced level textbook for third year students studying courses in public policy and public administration. It approaches the subject with plenty of material on how to do policy analysis, illustrating the mechanisms available for choosing policy. Conceptual foundations are described before students are introduced to possible conflicts between markets, democratic representatives and experts.

Product details

Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN:
9780393973990
Publication date:
August 2000
Length:
235mm
Width:
168mm
Thickness:
21mm
Weight:
635g
Pages:
448
Illustrations:
Illustrations
Readership:
Tertiary education; Professional & scholarly

Table of contents

  • Part Policy happens when we decide to decide
  • an overview of policy analysis as a profession and a process
  • deciding how to decide
  • "experts", "the people", and "the market"
  • Part Why is policy analysis important?
  • a benchmark for performance
  • what is a "market"
  • case study
  • a simple exchange economy
  • evaluation and "market failure"
  • criteria for intervention
  • experts and "advocacy"
  • the limits of policy analysis
  • democracy and "government failure"
  • the limits of choice by the people
  • case study
  • a simple command polity
  • Part How is policy analysis conducted?
  • the welfare economics paradigm
  • introduction to analytics
  • choice of regulatory form
  • efficiency, equity, or politics?
  • case study social security crisis
  • Part Cost
  • benefit analysis
  • discounting
  • probability, expected values and risk
  • discounting
  • time
  • cost
  • benefit analysis

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