Weimer David L <br/><br/>
Policy analysis : Concepts and practices 

 - 5th 
 - Boston  Longman  2011 
 - 473p  xviii 
<br/><br/>Contents:<br/>Preface;<br/>Introduction to public policy analysis;<br/>Preview;<br/>What is policy analysis;<br/>Toward professional ethics;<br/>Conceptual foundations for problem analysis;<br/>Efficiency and the idealized competitive model;<br/>Rationales for public policy : market failures;<br/>Rationales for public policy : other limitations of the competitive framework;<br/>Rationales for public policy : distributional and other goals;<br/>Limits to public intervention : government failures;<br/>Policy problems as market and government failure : the madison taxicab policy analysis example;<br/>Conceptual foundations for solution analysis;<br/>Correcting market and government failures : generic policies;<br/>Adoption;<br/>implementation;<br/>Government supply : drawing organizational boundaries;<br/>Doing policy analysis;<br/>Gathering information for policy analysis;<br/>Landing on your feet : organizing your policy analysis;<br/>Case study : the canadian pacific salmon fisher;<br/>Cost-benefit analysis : assessing efficiency;<br/>Public agency strategic analysis : identifying opportunities for increasing social value;<br/>Conclusion ;<br/>Doing well and doing good 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781138216471  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>1. Policy Sciences - U K
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>320.600000  / WEI