Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Detailed Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART I Introduction to Public Policy Analysis -- 1 Preview -- Reducing the U.S. Kidney Transplant Shortage -- Debriefing -- Write to Your Client -- Understand the Policy Problem -- Be Explicit About Values -- Specify Concrete Policy Alternatives -- Predict and Value Impacts -- Consider the Trade-Offs -- Make a Recommendation -- For Discussion -- 2 What Is Policy Analysis? -- Policy Analysis in Perspective -- Policy Analysis as a Profession -- A Closer Look at Analytical Functions -- Basic Preparation for Policy Analysis -- For Discussion -- 3 Toward Professional Ethics -- Analytical Roles -- Value Conflicts -- Ethical Code or Ethos? -- For Discussion -- PART II Conceptual Foundations for Problem Analysis -- 4 Efficiency and the Idealized Competitive Model -- The Efficiency Benchmark: The Competitive Economy -- Market Efficiency: The Meaning of Social Surplus -- Caveats: Models and Reality -- Conclusion -- For Discussion -- 5 Rationales for Public Policy: Market Failures -- Public Goods -- Externalities -- Natural Monopoly -- Information Asymmetry -- Conclusion -- For Discussion -- 6 Rationales for Public Policy: Other Limitations of the Competitive Framework -- Thin Markets: Few Sellers or Few Buyers -- The Source and Acceptability of Preferences -- The Problem of Uncertainty -- Intertemporal Allocation: Are Markets Myopic? -- Adjustment Costs -- Macroeconomic Dynamics -- Conclusion -- For Discussion -- 7 Rationales for Public Policy: Distributional and Other Goals -- Social Welfare beyond Pareto Efficiency -- Substantive Values Other Than Efficiency -- Some Cautions in Interpreting Distributional Consequences -- Choosing Distributional Values -- Instrumental Values
Updated in a new 5th edition, this book lays a strong conceptual foundation to understanding the rationales of and limitations to public policy. It gives 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 readers in public policy, public administration, and business programs.
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