Edição revisada de Policy analysis (2011).

Inclui índice e bibliografia.

PART I - INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC POLICY ANALYSIS; 1 - PREVIEW; Reducing the U.S. kedney transplant shortage; Debriefing; Write to your client; Understand the policy problem; Be explicit about valus; 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 perfession; 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; Models and reality; 5 - RATIONALES FOR PUBLIC POLICY: MARKET FAILURES; Public goods; Externalities; Natural monoly; Information asymmetry; 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; 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; 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; 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 goverbment failures; 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; Suppying goods through nonmarket mechanisms; Providing insurance and cushions; 11 - ADOPTION; The big picture: Policy process frameworks and theories; Practical approach to assessing and influencing feasibelity; Political strategies with arenas; 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 implecations of repeated interaction; 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; PART IV - DOING POLICY ANALYSIS; 14 - GATHERING INFORMATION FOR POLICY ANALYSIS; Document research; Field research; 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 liner and nonlinear approaches; 16 - CASE STUDY: THE CANADIAN PACIFIC SALMON FISHERY; For discussion; 17 - COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS: ASSESSING EFFICIENCY; _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; 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; PART V - CONCLUSION; 19 - DOING WELL AND DOING GOOD; Name index; Subject index.