【内容简介】Just when you thought a great book couldn t get any better, Eugene Bardach improves his gem of a handbook. Presenting dozens of concrete tips, interesting case studies, and step-by-step strategies for the budding analyst as well as the seasoned professional, Bardach s eightfold approach encapsulates more than 20 years of teaching and guiding students towards effective, accurate, and persuasive policy analysis. Some of the enhancements to this edition? A separate appendix that provides sample questions for policy analysts to ask about public and nonprofit institutions in order to aid their analysis and implementation. New attention to troubleshooting problems how to avoid linguistic pitfalls, confusing alternatives and criteria, and projecting outcomes that lead to design problems. Expanded coverage of cost-effectiveness analysis (including a new excerpt from a RAND Corporation report). Explanation of evidence and justification, as well as additional semantic tips in the appendices Readers will also find a sample document of real world policy analysis, a primer in how to talk the talk of policy analysis, and a cheat sheet of strategies for solving a host of policy problems.
【目次】Preface -- Introduction -- The eightfold path -- Overview of the book -- pt. 1. The eightfold path -- Step One : Define the problem -- Step two : Assemble some evidence -- Step three : Construct the alternatives -- Step four : Select the criteria -- Step five : Project the outcomes -- Step six : Confront the trade-offs -- Step seven : Decide! -- Step eight : Tell your story -- pt. 2. Assembling evidence -- Getting started -- Locating relevant sources -- Gaining access and engaging assistance -- Conducting a policy research interview -- Using language to characterize and calibrate -- Protecting credibility -- Strategic dilemmas of policy research -- pt. 3. "Smart (best) practices" research : understanding and making use of what look like good ideas from somewhere else -- Develop realistic expectations -- Analyze smart practices -- Observe the practice -- Describe generic vulnerabilities -- But will it work here? -- Back to the eightfold path -- Appendix A : Specimen of a real-world policy analysis -- Preface -- Summary -- Appendix B : Things governments do -- Taxes -- Regulation --

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