Policy Analysis 6th edition by David Weimer, Aidan Vining ISBN 1315442108 9781315442105

PART I Introduction to Public Policy Analysis

1 Preview

Reducing the U.S. Kidney Transplant Shortage

Debriefing

Write to Your Client

Understand the Policy Problem

Be Explicit About Values

Specify Concrete Policy Alternatives

Predict and Value Impacts

Consider the Trade-Offs

Make a Recommendation

For Discussion

2 What Is Policy Analysis?

Policy Analysis in Perspective

Policy Analysis as a Profession

A Closer Look at Analytical Functions

Basic Preparation for Policy Analysis

For Discussion

3 Toward Professional Ethics

Analytical Roles

Value Conflicts

Ethical Code or Ethos?

For Discussion

PART II Conceptual Foundations for Problem Analysis

4 Efficiency and the Idealized Competitive Model

The Efficiency Benchmark: The Competitive Economy

Market Efficiency: The Meaning of Social Surplus

Caveats: Models and Reality

Conclusion

For Discussion

5 Rationales for Public Policy: Market Failures

Public Goods

Externalities

Natural Monopoly

Information Asymmetry

Conclusion

For Discussion

6 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

Conclusion

For Discussion

7 Rationales for Public Policy: Distributional and Other Goals

Social Welfare beyond Pareto Efficiency

Substantive Values Other Than Efficiency

Some Cautions in Interpreting Distributional Consequences

Choosing Distributional Values

Instrumental Values

Conclusion

For Discussion

8 Limits to Public Intervention: Government Failures

Problems Inherent in Direct Democracy

Problems Inherent in Representative Government

Problems Inherent in Bureaucratic Supply

Problems Inherent in Decentralization

Conclusion

For Discussion

9 Policy Problems as Market and Government Failure: The Madison Taxicab Policy Analysis Example

Postscript: Technology Makes the 24/7 Rule Irrelevant

The Relationship between Market and Government Failures

Conclusion

For Discussion

PART III Conceptual Foundations for Solution Analysis

10 Correcting Market and Government Failures: Generic Policies

Freeing, Facilitating, and Simulating Markets

Using Subsidies and Taxes to Alter Incentives

Establishing Rules

Supplying Goods through Nonmarket Mechanisms

Providing Insurance and Cushions

Conclusion

For Discussion

11 Adoption

The Big Picture: Policy Process Frameworks and Theories

Practical Approach to Assessing and Influencing Political Feasibility

Political Strategies with Arenas

Conclusion

For Discussion

12 Implementation

Prerequisite: Sound Logic

Identifying the Links in the Chain: The Assembly Metaphor

Roles in the Implementation Process

Implementation Analysis Techniques

Policy Outcomes: Uncertainty and Error Correction

Understanding the Implications of Repeated Interaction

Conclusion

For Discussion

13 Government Provision: Drawing Organizational Boundaries

Provision or Production?

Production Costs, Bargaining Costs, and Opportunism Costs in Contracting

Predicting Bargaining and Opportunism Costs

More Autonomous Public Supply

Complex Public Provision

Public–Private Partnership Case

Assessing and Building Public Agency Capacity

Conclusion

For Discussion

PART IV Doing Policy Analysis

14 Gathering Information for Policy Analysis

Document Research

Field Research

Conclusion

For Discussion

15 Landing on Your Feet: Organizing Your Policy Analysis

Analyzing Yourself

The Client Orientation

Steps in Rationalist Policy Analysis

Problem Analysis

Solution Analysis

Communicating Analysis

Self-Analysis Once Again: Combining Linear and Nonlinear Approaches

Conclusion

For Discussion

16 Case Study: The Canadian Pacific Salmon Fishery

For Discussion

17 Cost–Benefit Analysis: Assessing Efficiency

Preview: CBA of a Juvenile Justice Program

Net Benefits and Potential Pareto Improvement

Step 1: Specify Current and Alternative Policies

Step 2: Specify Whose Costs and Benefits Count

Step 3: Catalogue Relevant Impacts

Step 4: Predict Impacts over Time Horizon of Policies

Step 5: Monetize All Impacts

Step 6: Discount Benefits and Costs to Obtain Present Values

Step 7: Compute the Present Value of Net Benefits

Step 8: Perform Sensitivity Analysis

Step 9: Recommend

Conclusion

For Discussion

18 Public Agency Strategic Analysis: Identifying Opportunities for Increasing Social Value

Clarifying Social (Public) Value

The External Forces on an Agency

Internal Analysis: The Value Creation Process

Feasible, Rather than Ideal, Alternatives

Conclusion

For Discussion

PART V Conclusion

19 Doing Well and Doing Good

Name Index

Subject Index