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Contents: Ágota Scharle: Foreword (3); Hana Hašková: Factors contributing to the decline in childcare services for children under the age of three in the Czech Republic (4-20); Věra Kuchařová: Supply and demand for children's day-care facilities and its determinants in the Czech Republic (21-40); Jana Válková: What is the direction of the Czech childcare policy? (41-56); Andrea Gyarmati: Changing values and measures in population policy, social policy and child protection in the Hungarian system of family benefits from 1989 to 2008 (57-82); Dorottya Szikra: Eastern European faces of familialism: Hungarian and Polish family policies from a historical perspective (83-95); Milena L ange, Ewa Frątczak: Day care services for children in Poland, 1980–2008 (96-106); Daniel Gerbery: Public childcare in the Slovak Republic: development, outcomes and public attitudes (107-123).

While the focus of political science activity in the US has changed from politics to policy, this trend is regarded with skepticism elsewhere. Policy analysis has, in European political science, a historical link with the notion of 'the State'. It is argued that a new approach to policy analysis should be developed which recognizes that policy analysis is an escape from stagnation in political science, allows comparisons across social systems, & is an approach, not an exclusive paradigm. Policy analysis is compatible with a variety of theoretical approaches, including Marxism. J. Peterson

AbstractThe use of convergent policy analysis approaches enables legislative program evaluators to assess questions that are not framed with research feasibility in mind.

Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Summary -- Scope of the study -- Key lessons -- Current practices in the Nordic countries -- Recommendations -- 1. Dealing with distortions -- 1.1 A primer on labour market distortions -- 1.1.1 I - Four dimensions of labour supply -- 1.1.2 II - Balanced budget approach -- 1.1.3 III - Unchanged income distribution -- 1.1.4 IV - Zero longrun real wage elasticity of labour supply -- 1.1.5 Use of the four principles in two examples -- Example one -- Example two -- 1.2 Marginal cost of public funds -- Box 1: Marginal cost of public funds

In this article we survey the field of policy analysis from two perspectives. First, we discuss recent arguments made for and against the use of random assignment in social experimentation and policy analysis. Second, we argue that data, not methods, are driving policy analysis innovation. We review the benefits and drawbacks of three types of data-administrative data, spatial data, and Big Data-and discuss the role, or potential role, each plays in extant policy analysis. We end with a comment on what we believe are the future directions and areas of growth for the field of policy analysis in coming years. Adapted from the source document.

SO POSED, THIS QUESTION IS UNANSWERABLE. ONE NEEDS TO KNOW, FIRST, WHAT PURPOSE THE ANSWER IS MEANT TO SERVE. FOR MOST PURPOSES A SIMPLE DEFINITION DOES RATHER NICELY: POLICY ANALYSIS IS SYSTEMATIC THINKING ABOUT PUBLIC ISSUES OR DECISIONS LEADING TO PRACTICAL RESPONSES THAT CAN BE BROADLY COMMUNICATED. ATTRIBUTES OF THE SPONSOR OR PRODUCER OF THE WORK ARE NOT IMPORTANT; THE PRODUCT IS CENTRAL, AND ITS QUALITY ALONG THESE THREE DIMENSIONS IS CRUCIAL. SYSTEM, PRACTICALITY, AND COMMUNICATION-ALL THREE LEGS MUST BE ON THE ANALYTICAL STOOL, OR IT WILL LACK THE STRENGTH TO SUPPORT ACTION.