Updated in a new 5th edition, this book lays a strong conceptual foundation to understanding the rationales of and limitations to public policy. It gives practical advice about how to do policy analysis while demonstrating the application of advanced analytical techniques through case study examples.
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Often described as a public policy "bible, " Weimer and Vining remains the essential primer it ever was. Now in its sixth 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, but goes a bit deeper to demonstrate the application of advanced analytical techniques through the use of case studies. Updates to this edition include:
This chapter introduces social workers to policy analysis research methodologies, a specialized and often sophisticated form of interdisciplinary scientific inquiry used to guide and influence decision making about policies. It focuses on governmental social policies that largely dictate the quality of life and overall well-being of residents in the United States by redistributing goods, services, and money. After defining policy analysis, major academic disciplinary affiliations and professional affiliations of policy analysts are identified and settings employing them described. Examples of qualitative and quantitative policy analysis research studies are provided, and dominant values and ethics of policy analysis research are summarized and critiqued. Models for conducting policy analysis research are introduced, and guidelines to evaluate policy analysis ...
How well can democratic decision making incorporate the knowledge and expertise generated by public policy analysts? This book examines the historical development of policy analysis, as well as its use in legislative and regulatory bodies and in the federal executive branch. The essays show that policy-analytic expertise effectively improves governmental services only when it complements democratic decision making. When successful, policy analysis fosters valuable new ideas, better use of evidence, and greater transparency in decision processes.
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