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| Contents |
Introduction to Public Policy Analysis -- Preview: The Canadian Salmon Fishery -- Increasing the Social Value of the Canadian Salmon Fishery -- Postscript and Prologue -- What Is Policy Analysis? -- Policy Analysis and Related Professions -- Policy Analysis as a Profession -- A Closer Look at Analytical Functions -- Basic Preparation for Policy Analysis -- Toward Professional Ethics -- Analytical Roles -- Value Conflicts -- Ethical Code or Ethos? -- Conceptual Foundations for Problem Analysis -- Efficiency and the Idealized Competitive Model -- The Efficiency Benchmark: The Competitive Economy -- Market Efficiency: The Meaning of Social Surplus -- Caveats: Models and Reality -- Rationales for Public Policy: Market Failures -- Public Goods -- Externalities -- Natural Monopoly -- Information Asymmetry -- 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 -- Rationales for Public Policy: Distributional and Other Goals -- Social Welfare Beyond Pareto Efficiency -- Substantive Values Other Than Efficiency -- Some Cautions in Interpreting Distributional Consequences -- Instrumental Values -- Limits to Public Intervention: Government Failures -- Problems Inherent in Direct Democracy -- Problems Inherent in Representative Government -- Problems Inherent in Bureaucratic Supply. |
| Abstract |
This book both introduces and explores the hows and whys of the practices of public policy. It provides reality-based practical advice about how to actually conduct policy analysis and demonstrate the application of advanced analytic techniques. A five-part organization emphasizes that policy analysis is client-oriented and raises ethical issues; provides rationales for public policy-- describing the limitations to effective public policy and generic policy solutions; gives practical advice about implementing policy analysis; presents several examples illustrating how analysts have approached policy problems and the differences that their efforts have made; and summarizes the role and work of the analyst and challenges the analyst to both do-well and do-good. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2003062694 |
| ISBN | 0131830015 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9780131830011 (pbk.) |
