Policy Analysis

Laying a strong conceptual foundation to understanding the rationales of and limitations to public policy, Weimer and Vining give practical advice about how to do policy analysis while demonstrating the application of advanced analytical techniques through case study examples. Policy Analysis: Concepts and Practices is a comprehensive, accessible, and rich introduction to policy analysis for students in public policy, public administration, and business programs.Preface Acknowledgments List of Figures List of Tables PART I: Introduction to Public Policy Analysis 1. What is Policy Analysis? PART II: Conceptual Foundations for Problem Analysis 2. Efficiency and the Idealized Competitive Model 3. Rationales for Public Policy: Market Failures 4. Rationales for Public Policy: Other Limitations of the Competitive Framework 5. Rationales for Public Policy: Distributional and Other Goals 6. Limits to Public Intervention: Government Failures 7. Policy Problems as Market and Government Failure PART III: Conceptual Foundations for Solution Analysis 8. Correcting Market and Government Failures: Generic Policy Instruments 9. Adoption 10. Implementation 11. Government Supply: Drawing Organizational Boundaries PART IV: Doing Policy Analysis 12. Landing on Your Feet: Organizing Your Policy Analysis 13. Gathering Information for Policy Analysis 14: Benefit-Cost Analysis 15: When Statistics Count: Revising the Lead Standard for Gasoline