Confronting Values in Policy Analysis

by Fishcer, Frank; Forester, John

• ISBN13: 9780803926165
• ISBN10: 0803926162
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1987-07-01
• Publisher: Sage Pubns

Summary

Confronting Values in Policy Analysis questions the pursuit of 'value neutrality' in policy analysis, and argues for the integration of empirical and normative methods of analysis. The contributors analyse the emerging ethical issues, the practice of policy analysis, theoretical and methodological issues involved in the normative work of policy analysts, and the central questions of ethical responsibility.

Table of Contents

Editor's Introduction

Integrating Principles and Practices

Political Philosophy, Practical Reason and Policy Analysis

Can Policy Analysis Be Ethical?

Policy Expertise and the State: The Technocratic Bias

Policy Science and the Administrative State

The Political Economy of Cost-Benefit Analysis

Policy Expertise and the 'New Class'

A Critique of the Neoconservative Thesis

Normative Theory and Methodology

Interpretation and the Practice of Policy Analysis

Anticipating Alternatives

Planning and Policy Analysis in Practice

Policy Science and Rational Choice Theory

A Methodological Critique

Ethical Responsibility

Ethics and the Policy Analyst

The Problem of Responsibility

Unwitting Human Subjects and the Army's Biological Warfare Tests

Policy Cases: Issues and Illustrations

The Politics of Criteria

Planning for the Redevelopment of Times Square

The Symbolic Side of Policy Analysis

Interpreting Policy Change in a Health Department

Economic Theory in Practice

White House Oversight of OSHA Health Standards

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