Policy Analysis

Höfundar: David L. Weimer; Aidan R. Vining (Útgáfa: 7)
Policy Analysis

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Often described as a public policy "bible," Weimer and Vining remains the essential primer it ever was. Now in a thoroughly revised seventh edition, Policy Analysis provides a strong conceptual foundation of the rationales for and the limitations to public policy. It offers practical advice about how to do policy analysis, and goes a bit deeper to demonstrate the application of advanced analytical techniques through the use of case studies.

Updates to this edition include: An all-new introductory case on corporate taxation; Consideration of addiction as a rationale for public policy; Discussion of public policy issues related to platforms and intermediation, especially to digital service delivery; Updated discussion of information gathering from the perspectives of internal and external validity; An updated British Columbia salmon fishery case.

The textbook is supported by online materials for instructors, including suggestions for and examples of course policy projects, a project assessment template, sample instructions to students for preparing policy reports, as well as discussion questions and answers for each chapter. Cases that have been removed from the seventh edition remain available on the book’s webpage. Policy Analysis: Concepts and Practices remains a comprehensive, serious, and rich introduction to policy analysis for students in public policy, public administration, and business programs.

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Útgefandi
Taylor & Francis
ISBN
9781040354377
Print ISBN
9781032756677
Format
ePub
Útgáfa
7
Höfundar
David L. Weimer; Aidan R. Vining
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2025-06-18
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
100
Prent takmörkun
2
Afritunar takmörkun
2

Kaflar

  • Cover
  • Endorsement
  • Half-Title Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Table of Contents
  • Detailed Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • List of Boxes
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I Introduction to Public Policy Analysis
  • 1 Preview
  • 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
  • The Myriad Sources of Demand for Policy Analysis
  • Policy Analysis as a Recognized Profession
  • A Closer Look at Analytical Functions
  • Policy Knowledge and Expertise
  • For Discussion
  • 3 Toward Professional Ethics
  • Three Perspectives on Values and Analytical Roles
  • Value Trade-Offs and Conflicts
  • Responses to Value Conflicts: Voice, Exit, and Disloyalty
  • Some Examples of Value Conflicts
  • Demands for Cooked Results
  • Misrepresentation of Results
  • 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
  • Consumer Surplus: Demand Schedules as Marginal Valuations
  • Producer Surplus: Background on Pricing
  • Producer Surplus: Measurement with Supply Schedules
  • Social Surplus
  • Caveats: Models and Reality
  • Conclusion
  • For Discussion
  • 5 Rationales for Public PolicyMarket Failures
  • Public Goods
  • Excludability and Property Rights
  • Nonrivalrous Goods
  • Congestibility: The Role of Demand
  • A Classification of Public Goods
  • Rivalry, Excludability: Private Goods
  • Nonrivalry, Excludability: Toll Goods
  • Nonrivalry, Nonexcludability: Pure and Ambient Public Goods
  • Rivalry, Nonexcludability: Open Entry, Common Property, and Free Goods
  • Reprise of Public Goods
  • Externalities
  • Efficiency Losses of Negative and Positive Externalities
  • Market Responses to Externalities
  • Natural Monopoly
  • Allocative Inefficiency under Natural Monopoly
  • Restraints When Markets Are Contestable
  • X-Inefficiency Resulting from Limited Competition
  • Information Asymmetry
  • Diagnosing Information Asymmetry
  • Search Goods
  • Experience Goods: Primary Markets
  • Experience Goods: The Role of Secondary Markets
  • Experience Goods: Summary
  • Post-Experience Goods
  • Reprise of Information Asymmetry
  • Conclusion
  • For Discussion
  • 6 Rationales for Public PolicyOther Limitations of the Competitive Framework
  • Thin Markets: Few Sellers or Few Buyers
  • The Source and Acceptability of Preferences
  • Endogenous Preferences: Education and Advertising
  • Endogenous Preferences: Addiction
  • Utility Interdependence: Other-Regarding Preferences
  • A Taste for Fairness: Process-Regarding Preferences
  • Legitimacy of Preferences
  • Reprise of Preference Problems
  • The Problem of Uncertainty
  • Availability of Insurance
  • Incomplete Insurance Markets: Adverse Selection, Moral Hazard, and Underinsuring
  • Subjective Perception of Risk
  • More General Issues Related to the Rationality of Decision-Making
  • Reprise of Uncertainty Problems
  • Intertemporal Allocation: Are Market Participants Myopic?
  • Capital Markets
  • Reprise of Intertemporal Problems
  • Adjustment Costs
  • Macroeconomic Dynamics
  • Conclusion
  • For Discussion
  • 7 Rationales for Public PolicyDistributional and Other Goals
  • Social Welfare beyond Pareto Efficiency
  • Explicit Social Welfare Functions
  • Challenges to the Use of Individual Utilities in Social Welfare Functions
  • Challenges to the Choice of the Social Welfare Function
  • Choosing Institutions versus Choosing Allocations
  • Substantive Values Other Than Efficiency
  • Human Dignity: Equity of Opportunity and Floors on Consumption
  • Increasing the Equality of Outcomes
  • Preserving Institutional Values
  • Some Cautions in Interpreting Distributional Consequences
  • Measurement Issues
  • Index Issues
  • Categorization Issues
  • Silent Losers Issues
  • Instrumental Values
  • Political Feasibility
  • Revenues and Expenditures
  • Conclusion
  • For Discussion
  • 8 Limits to Public InterventionGovernment Failures
  • Problems Inherent in Direct Democracy
  • The Paradox of Voting
  • Preference Intensity and Bundling
  • Democracy as a Check on Power
  • Problems Inherent in Representative Government
  • Concentrated Benefits and Diffuse Costs: Client Politics and Rent Seeking
  • Diffuse Benefits Organized Against Concentrated Costs: Entrepreneurial Politics
  • Problems of Geographic Representation: District-Based Legislatures
  • Shortened Time Horizons: Electoral Cycles
  • Posturing to Public Attention: Public Agendas, Sunk Costs, and Precedent
  • Representatives and Analysts
  • Problems Inherent in Bureaucratic Supply
  • Agency Loss
  • The Necessity to Impute Values to Outputs
  • Effects of Limited Competition on Efficiency
  • Ex Ante Controls: Inflexibility Caused by Civil Service Protections
  • Bureaucratic Failure as Intra-Organizational Market Failure
  • Analysts and Bureaucracy
  • Problems Inherent in Decentralization
  • Interjurisdictional Coordination and the Implementation Problem
  • Fiscal Externalities
  • Analysts in Decentralized Political Systems
  • Conclusion
  • For Discussion
  • 9 Policy Problems as Market and Government FailuresRegulating Platforms
  • The Relationship between Market and Government Failures
  • Platforms as Responses to Missing Markets
  • Governments’ Role in Platform Creation
  • Regulatory Challenges, Met and Unmet
  • Conclusion
  • For Discussion
  • Part III Conceptual Foundations for Solution Analysis
  • 10 Correcting Market and Government FailuresGeneric Policies
  • Freeing, Facilitating, and Simulating Markets
  • Freeing Markets
  • Facilitating Markets
  • Simulating Markets
  • Using Subsidies and Taxes to Alter Incentives
  • Supply-Side Taxes
  • Supply-Side Subsidies
  • Demand-Side Subsidies
  • Demand-Side Taxes
  • Establishing Rules
  • Framework Rules
  • Regulations
  • Summary: The Wide World of Rules (and Some Checks)
  • Supplying Goods through Nonmarket Mechanisms
  • Direct Supply by Government Bureaus
  • Independent Agencies
  • Contracting Out
  • Providing Insurance and Cushions
  • Insurance
  • Cushions
  • Conclusion
  • For Discussion
  • 11 Adoption
  • The Big Picture: Policy Process Frameworks and Theories
  • Interest Group Theory
  • Institutional Rational Choice
  • Path (State) Dependence
  • Advocacy Coalition Framework
  • Social Construction Framework
  • Multiple Streams Framework
  • Punctuated Equilibrium Theory
  • Practical Approach to Assessing and Influencing Political Feasibility
  • Identifying the Relevant Actors
  • Understanding the Motivations and Beliefs of Actors
  • Assessing the Resources of Actors
  • Choosing the Arena
  • Political Strategies within Arenas
  • Co-optation
  • Compromise
  • Heresthetics
  • Rhetoric
  • Increasing Political Capacity: Collaborative Governance
  • Conclusion
  • For Discussion
  • 12 Implementation
  • Prerequisite: Sound Logic
  • Identifying the Links in the Chain: The Assembly Metaphor
  • Roles in the Implementation Process
  • Implementation Managers
  • Doers
  • Fixers
  • Implementation Analysis Techniques
  • Forward Mapping: Writing Implementation Scenarios
  • Backward Mapping
  • Policy Outcomes: Uncertainty and Error Correction
  • Redundancy and Slack
  • Designing In Evaluation
  • Facilitating Termination
  • Responding to Heterogeneity
  • Bottom-Up Processes
  • Phased Implementation
  • Understanding the Implications of Repeated Interaction
  • Social and Organizational Norms
  • Leadership and Corporate Culture
  • Conclusion
  • For Discussion
  • 13 Government ProvisionDrawing Organizational Boundaries
  • Provision or Production?
  • Production Costs, Bargaining Costs, and Opportunism Costs in Contracting
  • Production Costs
  • Bargaining Costs
  • Opportunism Costs
  • Predicting Bargaining and Opportunism Costs
  • Task Complexity
  • Contestability
  • Asset Specificity
  • Can Opportunism Be Controlled by the Use of Nonprofits?
  • More Autonomous Public Supply
  • Complex Public Provision
  • Public–Private Partnership (PPP) Case
  • Assessing and Building Public Agency Capacity
  • Conclusion
  • For Discussion
  • Part IV Doing Policy Analysis
  • 14 Gathering Information for Policy Analysis
  • Document Research
  • Useful Knowledge: Validity
  • Types of Documents and Their Credibility
  • Field Research
  • Documentation: Giving Credit, Increasing Credibility, Adding to Capital Stock
  • Conclusion
  • For Discussion
  • 15 Landing on Your FeetOrganizing a Policy Analysis
  • Analyzing Yourself
  • The Client Orientation
  • Steps in Rationalist Policy Analysis
  • Problem Analysis
  • Understanding the Problem
  • Choosing and Explaining Goals and Constraints
  • Choosing a Solution Method
  • Solution Analysis
  • Choosing Impact Categories for Goals
  • Specifying Policy Alternatives
  • Prediction in Terms of Goals and Their Impact Categories
  • Valuing Alternatives in Terms of Goals and Their Impact Categories
  • Assessment: Comparing Alternatives across Incommensurable Goals
  • Presenting Recommendations
  • Communicating Analysis
  • Structuring Interaction
  • Keeping The Client’s Attention
  • Establishing Credibility
  • Self-Analysis Once Again: Combining Linear and Nonlinear Approaches
  • Conclusion
  • For Discussion
  • 16 Case StudyThe Canadian Pacific Salmon Fishery
  • For Discussion
  • 17 Cost–Benefit AnalysisAssessing Efficiency
  • Preview: CBA of a Juvenile Justice Program
  • Net Benefits and Potential Pareto Improvement
  • Step 1: Explain the Purpose of the CBA
  • Step 2: Specify Current and Alternative Policies
  • Step 3: Specify Whose Costs and Benefits Count
  • Jurisdictional Boundaries
  • Jurisdictional Membership
  • Preference Legitimacy
  • Step 4: Catalogue Relevant Impacts
  • Step 5: Predict Impacts over Time Horizon of Policies
  • Determining the Relevant Time Horizon
  • Sources of Evidence for Prediction
  • Step 6: Monetize All Impacts
  • Valuing Inputs: Opportunity Cost
  • Valuing Impacts: Willingness to Pay (Accept)
  • Step 7: Discount Benefits and Costs to Obtain Present Values
  • Step 8: Compute the Present Value of Net Benefits
  • Step 9: Perform Sensitivity Analysis
  • Partial Sensitivity Analysis
  • Monte Carlo Simulation
  • Step 10: Recommend
  • Conclusion
  • For Discussion
  • 18 Public Agency Strategic AnalysisIdentifying Opportunities for Increasing Social Value
  • Clarifying Social (Public) Value
  • The External Forces on an Agency
  • Supplier Bargaining Power
  • Threat of Substitutes/Entry Barriers
  • Purchaser and User Bargaining Power
  • Extent of Actual Competition or the Threat of Contestability
  • Political Influence
  • Internal Analysis: The Value Creation Process
  • Assessing Value Creation: Either Current or Under Feasible Alternatives
  • Feasible, Rather than Ideal, Alternatives
  • Conclusion
  • For Discussion
  • Part V Conclusion
  • 19 Doing Well and Doing Good
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index