Cases in Public Policy Analysis - Third Edition

Informationen zum Autor George M. Guess is a scholar-in-residence in public administration and policy at American University. Paul G. Farnham is an associate professor emeritus in the Department of Economics at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. Klappentext Combining the insights of an economist and a political scientist! this third edition offers real world cases to provide students with the institutional and political dimensions of policy problems as well as easily understood principles and methods for analyzing public policies. Zusammenfassung Combining the insights of an economist and a political scientist! this third edition offers real world cases to provide students with the institutional and political dimensions of policy problems as well as easily understood principles and methods for analyzing public policies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1. The Policymaking Process: Between Technical Rationality and Politics 2. Problem Identification and StructuringCase Study: Fighting Crime: The Case for Emptier Prisons 3. Forecasting Institutional Impacts on Public Policy PerformanceCase Study: Washington! DC! School Reform 4. Forecasting Policy OptionsCase Study: Transit Options for Metro's Purple Line 5. Pricing and Public Policy: The Case of Cigarette TaxesCase Study: Cigarette Tax Clouds Boosts among States 6. Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: The Case of HIV Prevention ProgramsCase Study: Fighting HIV! a Community at a Time 7. Cost-Benefit Analysis: The Case of Environmental Air Quality StandardsCase Study: The Debate over Ambient Air Quality Standards for Fine Particulate Matter 8. Summary and ConclusionsGlossary Index

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• Authors: Paul G. Farnham, George M. Guess, George M. (Scholar in Residence in Public Administration and Policy Guess, George M. Farnham Guess, Guess George M.
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.05.2011
• EAN: 9781589017344
• ISBN: 978-1-58901-734-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Cases in Public Policy Analysis
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General, Central / national / federal government policies, Central government policies