Chapter 1: Public policy, power, the people, pluralism, and you Case: "Drug abuse and waterville" Value conflict A political system Public policy and linkage mechanisms Power and policymaking An ideal (direct) democracy Representative democracy Interest group democracy Elitism Elite democracy: the irony of democracy Effect of power structures on the policy analyst Stakeholder analysis Case:Nightcrawlers and cappuccino: the old west versus the new west Chapter2: The rational public policy method Genesis of the rational model A critical reaction The rational model Mini-case: McNamara's retrospective: Rational decision making? Rationality or something else? Mini-case: The small town health clinic Model evaluation Chapter3: Critiques of the rational approach Examples of the power of nonrational explanations Critiques of the rational model Mini-case: policy analysis, ethics, and role Chapter4: The nonrational (political) approach Essence and overview of the policy process Problem identification/gaining agenda status Policy formulation, adoption, and funding Policy implementation Policy evaluation, adjustment, termination Mini-case: The pocatello prison siting story: a case of politics Chapter5: A pragmatic public policy analysis method The rational public policy analysis method: history and form A five-step method Chapter6: Postpositivist problem definition and praxis The two tracks of policy analysis The ambiguous and subjective nature of events in the system What is the "truth" and how are policies generated? Stone's symbolic representation of problem definition Other critics of positivism Postpositivist tools Using language in problem definition: the yellowstone bison controversy Chapter7: Doing democracy: a new fifth step Defining democracy Structuring democracy Democratizating steps I-IV and the new fifth step Doing democracy: a postpositivist approach Ethics as democracy Chapter8: The positivist toolbox Sheila the policy analyst Tool 1: sampling and mail surveys Tool 2: extrapolation and forecasting Tool 3: measures of central tendency Tool 4: deflating money Tool 5: per capita analysis Tool 6: discounting Tool 7: cost benefit analysis Chapter9: The conclusion: praxis Mini-case: drig abuse and waterville