Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-179) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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1. Policy analysis: roots and branches -- 2. Regulation in the United States and comprehensive-rational analysis -- 3. Cost-benefit analysis and the regulatory process -- 4. Risk assessment and the regulatory process -- 5. Environmental impact assessment -- 6. Impact analysis and the regulatory process -- 7. The use of analysis -- 8. Using analysis to further democracy, not technocracy -- 9. Building better branches.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"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" --(backcover).