Public Policy Analysis Guide for Practitioners and Students

by Mary M. Shaw

The Public Policy Analysis Guide for Practitioners and Students will help both groups of users to lead policy analysis projects. The Guide addresses issues typically encountered in reviewing proposed as well as established policies. The Guide explains how to define the policy question that will be analyzed and how to establish analysis parameters. The Guide explains how to gather data qualitative data using interviews, surveys, and focus groups and how to analyze these data using the SWOT approach, a benefit cost review, or by identifying themes and patterns. The Guide explains how to gather quantitative data through measurement and research and to analyze these data using, when appropriate, a Chi Square statistic, the Pearson Product correlation coefficient, or simple linear regression.

85 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 3, 2017