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Policy analysis : concepts and practice

Title: Policy analysis : concepts and practice / David L. Weimer, Aidan R. Vining.
Author: Weimer, David Leo.
Publication: Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, [1999], ©1999.

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Additional Authors

Vining, Aidan R.

Description

viii, 486 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Contents

Pt. I. Introduction. 1. Preview: The Canadian Salmon Fishery. 2. What Is Policy Analysis? 3. Toward Professional Ethics -- Pt. II. Conceptual Foundations. 4. Efficiency and the Idealized Competitive Model. 5. Rationales for Public Policy: Market Failures. 6. Rationales for Public Policy: Other Limitations of the Competitive Framework. 7. Rationales for Public Policy: Distributional and Other Goals. 8. Limits to Public Intervention: Government Failures. 9. Correcting Market and Government Failures: Generic Policies -- Pt. III. Doing Policy Analysis. 10. Landing on Your Feet: How to Confront Policy Problems. Appendix 10A. Gathering Information for Policy Analysis. 11. Goals/Alternatives Matrices: Some Examples from CBO Studies. 12. Benefit-Cost Analysis. Appendix 12A. Measuring Consumer Surplus in the Presence of Income Effects. 13. Thinking Strategically About Adoption and Implementation -- Pt. IV. Doing Policy Analysis in Organizational Settings.
14. Benefit-Cost Analysis in a Bureaucratic Setting: The Strategic Petroleum Reserve. 15. When Statistics Count: Revising the Lead Standard for Gasoline -- Pt. V. Conclusion. 16. Doing Well and Doing Good.

ISBN

0131090836

LCCN

98027838

OCLC

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries