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• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Detailed Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Boxes
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• 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