Cases in Public Policy Analysis - Softcover

Guess, George M.; Farnham, Paul G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0878407685 ISBN 13: 9780878407682

Verlag: Georgetown University Press, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

Combining the insights of an economist and a political scientist, this new textbook uses real-world cases to provide students with the institutional and political dimensions of policy problems as well as easily understood principles and methods for analyzing public policies. It clearly explains such basic tools as developing alternatives, benefit-cost analysis, and public pricing and shows how to apply them to specific cases. Updated from the first edition with more cases, this new edition contains up-to-date materials involving actual complex policy issues, such as cigarette smoking regulation, air pollution control, public transit financing, HIV/AIDS prevention programs, and prison overcrowding. Bridging the gap between methods and their application in real life, this book is useful as either a text or supplement in upper-division and graduate-level courses and is also an excellent sourcebook in applied policy training for government practitioners and consultants.

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George M. Guess is a scholar-in-residence in public administration and policy at American University. Paul G. Farnham is an associate professor emeritus in the Department of Economics at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Georgetown University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0878407685
• ISBN 13: 9780878407682
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 400
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar