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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, NJ : Pearson Prentice Hall, ©2005.
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- Additional Authors
- Vining, Aidan R.
- Description
- xix, 501 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0131830015
- 9780131830011
- LCCN
- 2003062694
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library