Analyzing Policy
Choices, Conflicts, and Practices
Published on 9. August 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
448 pages
978-0-393-97399-0 (ISBN)
Description
Analyzing Policy not only helps students learn the conceptual foundations of policy analysis, but it also empowers them to apply what they learn and to engage in their own analysis.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 168 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
635 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-393-97399-0 (9780393973990)
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Person
Michael C. Munger is an associate professor of political science at Duke University. Professor Munger has also served as a policy analyst for the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C., and as president of the Public Choice Society from 1996-1998.
Content
Part 1 Policy happens when we decide to decide: an overview of policy analysis as a profession and a process; deciding how to decide - "experts", "the people", and "the market". Part 2 Why is policy analysis important?: a benchmark for performance - what is a "market"; case study 1 - a simple exchange economy; evaluation and "market failure" - criteria for intervention; experts and "advocacy" - the limits of policy analysis; democracy and "government failure" - the limits of choice by the people; case study 2 - a simple command polity. Part 3 How is policy analysis conducted?: the welfare economics paradigm - introduction to analytics; choice of regulatory form - efficiency, equity, or politics?; case study 3 social security crisis. Part 4 Cost-benefit analysis; discounting 1 - probability, expected values and risk; discounting 2 - time; cost-benefit analysis.