Policy analysis concepts and practice - Weimer, David L.; Vining, Aidan R. (New York Routledge, 2017)
What is policy analysis? -- Toward professional ethics -- 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 failure -- Policy problems as market and government failure: the Madison taxicab policy analysis example -- Correcting market and government failures: generic policies -- Adoption -- Implementation -- Government provision: drawing organizational boundaries -- Gathering information for policy analysis -- Landing on your feet: organizing your policy analysis -- Case study: the Canadian Pacific Salmon fishery -- Cost-benefit analysis: assessing efficiency -- Public agency strategic analysis: identifying opportunities for increasing social value.
Revised edition of Policy analysis, 2011.
Includes bibliographic references and index.
Keywords: Policy sciences