Policy Evaluation : Beyond the Cutting Edge

Beyond the Cutting Edge

By: Stuart Nagel (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 December 2001

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On a high level of generality the question is what constitutes good policy analysis? The key criteria relate to validity importance, usefulness, originality, and feasibility. This book examines both policy evaluation in general and also presents specific policy problems which shed light on important public policy issues of our times.

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Introduction: Objectively Good Policy Analysis	p. ix
Validity	p. ix
Importance	p. x
Usefulness	p. xi
Other Criteria	p. xi
Policy Evaluation in General	p. 1
Harold D. Lasswell and the Policy Sciences	p. 3
References	p. 7
Policy Analysis as an Academic Vocation	p. 9
What is Policy Analysis?	p. 10
What is Science?	p. 13
Cultivating Qualities of a Policy Analyst	p. 16
Planting Seeds	p. 21
Appendix: Comments by Richard Rose on Receiving the PSO Lasswell Award	p. 22
Methods of Analysis: Policy Yearbooks	p. 25
Public Policy Evaluation	p. 26
Comparing Public Policies	p. 27
Public Policy and Public Choice	p. 29
The Political Economy of Public Policy	p. 32
Confronting Values in Policy Analysis	p. 34
The Politics of Program Evaluation	p. 36
Policy Evaluation and Analysis: A Response	p. 39
Win-Win Policy Analysis	p. 43
Super-Optimization: A New Approach to National Environmental Policy-Making	p. 45
Pre-Requisites for Super-Optimal Policy-Making	p. 46
A National Experiment	p. 47
Discussion between the New 2000 Left and the New Win-Win Way	p. 49
The New Left Strikes First	p. 49
The Win-Win Response	p. 50
The New Left Gets the Last Word	p. 51
Postscript	p. 51
Rebuttal to Postscript	p. 52
Summary Conclusions	p. 53
Foresight and Hindsight in the Win-Win Analysis	p. 55
Tests for Win-Win Solutions	p. 55
Making Foresight Easier than It Is	p. 56
Decision-Aiding Software	p. 58
Post-Development Tests	p. 59
Hindsight is Easier, but Not Necessarily So Much	p. 60
Win-Win is Increasing and Why	p. 61
How Increase it More?	p. 62
Super-Optimizing for ADR Disputes	p. 65
Citizen-to-Citizen Disputes	p. 65
Disputes with Governments	p. 71
Some Implications	p. 74
Notes	p. 75
Win-Win Mentions	p. 77
Some Win-Win Mentions	p. 77
More Win-Win Mentions	p. 77
Still More Win-Win Mentions	p. 78
Win-Win Mentions as Innovative Policy Ideas	p. 79
Specific Policy Problems	p. 81
Economic and Political Policy: Capitalism, Democracy and Happiness	p. 83
What Has Happened?	p. 83
What to Do?	p. 84
The Book's Organization	p. 85
Technology Policy: Providing Access to the Internet for Low Income People	p. 87
Computers for Families or Individuals	p. 87
Community Computers	p. 89
Technology Policy: Providing Fetal Tissue for People with Relevant Diseases	p. 91
Alternatives	p. 91
The Consent Issue	p. 92
Other Fetal Tissue Issues	p. 92
Social Policy: The Poverty Problem after a Forty-Year War	p. 95
The Trends in Poverty	p. 96
Winners and Losers	p. 97
Solving Poverty and Inequality	p. 100
What Might the Future Hold?	p. 104
Editor's Note	p. 105
Social Policy: Administration versus Faculty Relations	p. 107
International Policy: Scientific Openess Versus National Security	p. 111
Legal Policy: The Death Penalty Moratorium and Some Policy Implications	p. 113
Changing Reasoning	p. 113
Governors and Presidents	p. 114
Attitudes Toward and By Americans	p. 114
Causes and Possible Solutions	p. 115
Broader Significance	p. 115
Postscript	p. 116
Literature of Policy Evaluation	p. 117
Public Policy Novels	p. 119
Books on Policy Novels	p. 119
Issues Treated	p. 120
Policy Novelists	p. 121
Russian Novelists	p. 123
Conclusions	p. 124
References	p. 125
Bibliographies on Policy Aspects of Major Fields of Knowledge	p. 127
Natural Science	p. 127
Humanities	p. 131
Social Science	p. 133
Index	p. 137
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