Policy analysis: concepts and practice

Often described as a public policy "bible," Weimer and Vining remains the essential primer it ever was. Now in its sixth edition, Policy Analysis provides a strong conceptual foundation of the rationales for and the limitations to public policy. It offers practical advice about how to do policy analysis, but goes a bit deeper to demonstrate the application of advanced analytical techniques through the use of case studies. Updates to this edition include:- A chapter dedicated to distinguishing between policy analysis, policy research, stakeholder analysis, and research about the policy process.- An extensively updated chapter on policy problems as market and governmental failure that explores the popularity of Uber and its consequences.- The presentation of a property rights perspective in the chapter on government supply to help show the goal tensions that arise from mixed ownership.- An entirely new chapter on performing analysis from the perspective of a public agency and a particular program within the agency's portfolio: public agency strategic analysis (PASA).- A substantially rewritten chapter on cost-benefit analysis, to better prepare students to become producers and consumers of the types of cost-benefit analyses they will encounter in regulatory analysis and social policy careers.- A new introductory case with a debriefing that provides advice to help students immediately begin work on their own projects.Policy Analysis: Concepts and Practices remains a comprehensive, serious, and rich introduction to policy analysis for students in public policy, public administration, and business programs. [Ed.].

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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.