Preface

Acknowledgments

List of Figures

List of Tables

PART I: Introduction to Public Policy Analysis

1. What is Policy Analysis?

PART II: Conceptual Foundations for Problem Analysis

4. Efficiency and the Idealized Competitive Model

5. Rationales for Public Policy: Market Failures

6. Rationales for Public Policy: Other Limitations of the Competitive Framework

7. Rationales for Public Policy: Distributional and Other Goals

8. Limits to Public Intervention: Government Failures

9. Policy Problems as Market and Government Failure

PART III: Conceptual Foundations for Solution Analysis

10. Correcting Market and Government Failures: Generic Policy Instruments

11. Adoption

12. Landing on Your Feet: Organizing Your Policy Analysis

13. Implementation

PART IV: Doing Policy Analysis

14. Government Supply: Drawing Organizational Boundaries

15. Gathering Information for Policy Analysis

16: Goals/Alternatives Matrices: Some Examples from CBO Studies

17: Benefit-Cost Analysis

18: When Statistics Count: Revising the Lead Standard for Gasoline

David Weimer is a Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

Aidan R. Vining is a Professor at Simon Fraser University, Canada.