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Policy analysis: concepts and practice

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Upper Saddle River, New Jersey Prentice-Hall 2004Edition: 4th edDescription: xix + 501pISBN:
  • 0131830015
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.6
Summary: "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."" For individuals interested in policy analysis and the analytical process"
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"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."" For individuals interested in policy analysis and the analytical process"

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