Policy Evaluation : Beyond the Cutting Edge

by Nagel, Stuart S.; Nagel, Stuart

• ISBN13: 9781590331699
• ISBN10: 1590331699
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-02-01
• Publisher: Nova Science Pub

Table of Contents

Introduction: Objectively Good Policy Analysis	ix
Validity	ix
Importance	x
Usefulness	xi
Other Criteria	xi
Part One Policy Evaluation in General	1	(42)
Harold D. Lasswell and the Policy Sciences	3	(6)
Steven R. Brown
References	7	(2)
Policy Analysis as an Academic Vocation	9	(16)
Richard Rose
What is Policy Analysis?	10	(3)
What is Science?	13	(3)
Cultivating Qualities of a Policy Analyst	16	(5)
Planting Seeds	21	(1)
Appendix: Comments by Richard Rose on Receiving the PSO Lasswell Award	22	(3)
Methods of Analysis: Policy Yearbooks	25	(14)
Public Policy Evaluation	26	(1)
Comparing Public Policies	27	(2)
Public Policy and Public Choice	29	(3)
The Political Economy of Public Policy	32	(2)
Confronting Values in Policy Analysis	34	(2)
The Politics of Program Evaluation	36	(3)
Policy Evaluation and Analysis: A Response	39	(4)
Neale Smith
Part Two Win-Win Policy Analysis	43	(38)
Super-Optimization: A New Approach to National Environmental Policy-Making	45	(4)
Lawrence Susskind
Pre-Requisites for Super-Optimal Policy-Making	46	(1)
A National Experiment	47	(2)
Discussion between the New 2000 Left and the New Win-Win Way	49	(6)
Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen
PE Editors
The New Left Strikes First	49	(1)
The Win-Win Response	50	(1)
The New Left Gets the Last Word	51	(1)
Postscript	51	(1)
Rebuttal to Postscript	52	(1)
Summary Conclusions	53	(2)
Foresight and Hindsight in the Win-Win Analysis	55	(10)
Tests for Win-Win Solutions	55	(1)
Making Foresight Easier than It Is	56	(2)
Decision-Aiding Software	58	(1)
Post-Development Tests	59	(1)
Hindsight is Easier, but Not Necessarily So Much	60	(1)
Win-Win is Increasing and Why	61	(1)
How Increase it More?	62	(3)
Super-Optimizing for ADR Disputes	65	(12)
Citizen-to-Citizen Disputes	65	(6)
Disputes with Governments	71	(3)
Some Implications	74	(1)
Notes	75	(2)
Win-Win Mentions	77	(4)
Some Win-Win Mentions	77	(1)
More Win-Win Mentions	77	(1)
Still More Win-Win Mentions	78	(1)
Win-Win Mentions as Innovative Policy Ideas	79	(2)
Part Three Specific Policy Problems	81	(36)
Economic and Political Policy: Capitalism, Democracy and Happiness	83	(4)
What Has Happened?	83	(1)
What to Do?	84	(1)
The Book's Organization	85	(2)
Technology Policy: Providing Access to the Internet for Low Income People	87	(4)
Computers for Families or Individuals	87	(2)
Community Computers	89	(2)
Technology Policy: Providing Fetal Tissue for People with Relevant Diseases	91	(4)
Alternatives	91	(1)
The Consent Issue	92	(1)
Other Fetal Tissue Issues	92	(3)
Social Policy: The Poverty Problem after a Forty-Year War	95	(12)
Robert Haveman
The Trends in Poverty	96	(1)
Winners and Losers	97	(3)
Solving Poverty and Inequality	100	(4)
What Might the Future Hold?	104	(1)
Editor's Note:	105	(2)
Social Policy: Administration versus Faculty Relations	107	(4)
International Policy: Scientific Openess Versus National Security	111	(2)
Wendy White
Legal Policy: The Death Penalty Moratorium and Some Policy Implications	113	(4)
Changing Reasoning	113	(1)
Governors and Presidents	114	(1)
Attitudes Toward and By Americans	114	(1)
Causes and Possible Solutions	115	(1)
Broader Significance	115	(1)
Postscript	116	(1)
Part Four Literature of Policy Evaluation	117	(20)
Public Policy Novels	119	(8)
Marc Holzer
Vatche Gabrielian
Books on Policy Novels	119	(1)
Issues Treated	120	(1)
Policy Novelists	121	(2)
Russian Novelists	123	(1)
Conclusions	124	(1)
References	125	(2)
Bibliographies on Policy Aspects of Major Fields of Knowledge	127	(10)
Natural Science	127	(4)
Humanities	131	(2)
Social Science	133	(4)
Index	137