Title Analysis and Public Policy: Successes, Failures and Directions for Reform * Author(s) name(s): Stuart Shapiro * ISBN (or ASIN)978 1 78471 475 8 * Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing * Publication date: 2016 * Format: Hardcover * Description: How do we incorporate analytical thinking into public policy decisions? Stuart Shapiro confronts this issue in Analysis and Public Policy by looking at various types of analysis, and discussing how they are used in regulatory policy-making in the US. By looking at the successes and failures of incorporating cost-benefit analysis, risk assessment, and environmental impact assessment, he draws broader lessons on its use, focusing on the interactions between analysis and political factors, legal structures and bureaucratic organizations as possible areas for reform. * Page count: 192 pp * Link to cover on a NON-BOOKSELLER site: http://www.e-elgar.com/shop/analysis-...
* Author(s) name(s): Stuart Shapiro
* ISBN (or ASIN)978 1 78471 475 8
* Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
* Publication date: 2016
* Format: Hardcover
* Description: How do we incorporate analytical thinking into public policy decisions? Stuart Shapiro confronts this issue in Analysis and Public Policy by looking at various types of analysis, and discussing how they are used in regulatory policy-making in the US. By looking at the successes and failures of incorporating cost-benefit analysis, risk assessment, and environmental impact assessment, he draws broader lessons on its use, focusing on the interactions between analysis and political factors, legal structures and bureaucratic organizations as possible areas for reform.
* Page count: 192 pp
* Link to cover on a NON-BOOKSELLER site: http://www.e-elgar.com/shop/analysis-...