Weimer, David L. <br/><br/>
Policy analysis:   concepts and practice / 
David L. Weimer and Aidan R. Vining. 
 - Third edition 
 - Upper Saddle River, NJ:  Prentice Hall,  1999. 
 - viii, 486 pages;  28 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes indexes. 
<br/><br/>Part I: Introduction -- Preview the Canadian Salmon Fishery -- What is policy analysis? -- Toward professional ethics -- Part II: Conceptual foundations -- Efficiency and the idealized competitive model -- Rationales for public policy: market failures -- Rationales for public policy: other limitations of the competitive framework -- Rationales for public policy: distributional and other goals -- Limits to public intervention: government failures -- Correcting market and government failures: generic policies --- Part III: Doing policy analysis -- Landing on your feet: how to confront policy problems -- Goals/alternatives matrices: some examples from CBO studies -- Benefit-cost analysis -- Thinking strategically about adoption and implementation -- Part IV: Doing  policy analysis in organizational settings -- Benefit-costs analysis in a bureaucratic setting: the strategic petroleum reserve -- When statistics count: revisiting the lead standard for gasoline -- When statistics count: revisiting the lead standard for gasoline -- Part V: Conclusion -- Doing well and doing good  
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0131090836 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Policy sciences.