Policy Evaluation: Beyond the Cutting Edge

by Stuart S. Nagel, Stuart Nagel (Editor)

Overview

The key criteria for what constitutes good policy analysis, says Nagel, relate to validity importance, usefulness, originality, and feasibility. Policy evaluation in general, specific policy problems that illustrate public policy issues, and recent literature are examined in 18 chapters, only a few of which are attributed to named authors. The topics include policy analysis as an academic vocation, foresight and hindsight in the win-win analysis, and public policy novels. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781590331699
Publisher:	Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date:	02/28/2002
Pages:	140
Product dimensions:	7.09(w) x 10.24(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

	Introduction: Objectively Good Policy Analysis	ix
I.	Validity	ix
II.	Importance	x
III.	Usefulness	xi
IV.	Other Criteria	xi
Part 1	Policy Evaluation in General	1
Chapter 1	Harold D. Lasswell and the Policy Sciences	3
	References	7
Chapter 2	Policy Analysis as an Academic Vocation	9
I.	What is Policy Analysis?	10
II.	What is Science?	13
III.	Cultivating Qualities of a Policy Analyst	16
IV.	Planting Seeds	21
V.	Appendix: Comments by Richard Rose on Receiving the PSO Lasswell Award	22
Chapter 3	Methods of Analysis: Policy Yearbooks	25
I.	Public Policy Evaluation	26
II.	Comparing Public Policies	27
III.	Public Policy and Public Choice	29
IV.	The Political Economy of Public Policy	32
V.	Confronting Values in Policy Analysis	34
VI.	The Politics of Program Evaluation	36
Chapter 4	Policy Evaluation and Analysis: A Response	39
Part 2	Win-Win Policy Analysis	43
Chapter 5	Super-Optimization: A New Approach to National Environmental Policy-Making	45
	Pre-Requisites for Super-Optimal Policy-Making	46
	A National Experiment	47
Chapter 6	Discussion between the New 2000 Left and the New Win-Win Way	49
I.	The New Left Strikes First	49
II.	The Win-Win Response	50
III.	The New Left Gets the Last Word	51
IV.	Postscript	51
V.	Rebuttal to Postscript	52
VI.	Summary Conclusions	53
Chapter 7	Foresight and Hindsight in the Win-Win Analysis	55
I.	Tests for Win-Win Solutions	55
II.	Making Foresight Easier than It Is	56
III.	Decision-Aiding Software	58
IV.	Post-Development Tests	59
V.	Hindsight is Easier, but Not Necessarily So Much	60
VI.	Win-Win is Increasing and Why	61
VII.	How Increase it More?	62
Chapter 8	Super-Optimizing for ADR Disputes	65
I.	Citizen-to-Citizen Disputes	65
II.	Disputes with Governments	71
III.	Some Implications	74
	Notes	75
Chapter 9	Win-Win Mentions	77
I.	Some Win-Win Mentions	77
II.	More Win-Win Mentions	77
III.	Still More Win-Win Mentions	78
IV.	Win-Win Mentions as Innovative Policy Ideas	79
Part 3	Specific Policy Problems	81
Chapter 10	Economic and Political Policy: Capitalism, Democracy and Happiness	83
I.	What Has Happened?	83
II.	What to Do?	84
III.	The Book's Organization	85
Chapter 11	Technology Policy: Providing Access to the Internet for Low Income People	87
I.	Computers for Families or Individuals	87
II.	Community Computers	89
Chapter 12	Technology Policy: Providing Fetal Tissue for People with Relevant Diseases	91
I.	Alternatives	91
II.	The Consent Issue	92
III.	Other Fetal Tissue Issues	92
Chapter 13	Social Policy: The Poverty Problem after a Forty-Year War	95
I.	The Trends in Poverty	96
II.	Winners and Losers	97
III.	Solving Poverty and Inequality	100
IV.	What Might the Future Hold?	104
	Editor's Note	105
Chapter 14	Social Policy: Administration versus Faculty Relations	107
Chapter 15	International Policy: Scientific Openess Versus National Security	111
Chapter 16	Legal Policy: The Death Penalty Moratorium and Some Policy Implications	113
I.	Changing Reasoning	113
II.	Governors and Presidents	114
III.	Attitudes Toward and By Americans	114
IV.	Causes and Possible Solutions	115
V.	Broader Significance	115
	Postscript	116
Part 4	Literature of Policy Evaluation	117
Chapter 17	Public Policy Novels	119
I.	Books on Policy Novels	119
II.	Issues Treated	120
III.	Policy Novelists	121
IV.	Russian Novelists	123
V.	Conclusions	124
	References	125
Chapter 18	Bibliographies on Policy Aspects of Major Fields of Knowledge	127
I.	Natural Science	127
II.	Humanities	131
III.	Social Science	133
	Index	137