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Policy analysis deals with describing public policy, analyzing its causes, & assessing its consequences. One key issue is whether political structures & processes, or SE resources & needs, have more effect in shaping policy. Models have been defined giving primacy to each of these. The growth of policy analysis is limited by the ideological commitment of political scientists to pluralism, a commitment which predisposes them to look for causes compatible with pluralist values. The desire to find manipulable policy determinants is another distorting factor in policy studies. In fact, few purely causal theories have been developed. Path analysis is one causal analysis method for dealing with the question of the primacy of politics or economics. W. H. Stoddard.