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Analyzing Policy: Choices, Conflicts, and Practices (The New Institutionalism in American Politics)
Analyzing Policy not only helps students learn the conceptual foundations of policy analysis, but it also empowers them to apply what they learn and to engage in their own analysis.
Paperback, 448 pages
Published
August 28th 2000
by W. W. Norton & Company
(first published August 2000)
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Every so often, I have taught graduate (and even undergraduate) courses in policy analysis. While I have never assigned this book, it is commonly on my "short list" of possible texts. Thus, I obviously think that this book does its job well.
Michael Munger begins by laying out the questions that policy analysis tries to answer (Page xi): "First, what would be the best thing to do? Second, what is the best result that can actually be achieved?" He notes that this b...more
Michael Munger begins by laying out the questions that policy analysis tries to answer (Page xi): "First, what would be the best thing to do? Second, what is the best result that can actually be achieved?" He notes that this b...more
Munger outlines the language used in and the tools for analyzing organizational policy. Decision-making in any political environment always depends on a range of criteria. This idea is demonstrated in his introduction of a CAM Analysis (Criteria-Alternatives Matrix), a decision-making table that takes data and allows a policy/management analyst to rate each of 3 or four alternatives based on particular criteria. This analysis does not make the decision, but can give administration an accurate...more
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