Drawing on more than 40 years of experience with policy analysis, best-selling authors Eugene Bardach and Eric M. Patashnik use real-world examples to teach you how to be effective, accurate, and persuasive policy analysts. The Sixth Edition of A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis presents dozens of concrete tips, new case studies, and step-by-step strategies for the budding analyst as well as the seasoned professional.
Just when you thought a great book couldn’t get any better, Eugene Bardach improves his “gem” of a handbook. Presenting dozens of concrete tips, interesting case studies, and step-by-step strategies...
This guide to doing policy analysis addresses the psychology as well as the logic of the analytical process. It contains helpful hints, strategies for economising on data collection and checklists...
Public policy making -- Communication in the process -- Definition : frame the problem -- Legislative history : know the record -- Position paper : know the arguments -- Petitions and proposals : request action or propose policy -- Briefing ...
In Evidence-Based Policy, Nancy Cartwright, an eminent scholar, and Jeremy Hardie, who has had a long and successful career in both business and the economy, explain that the dominant methods which are in use now--broadly speaking, methods ...
This is essential to ensure that policy choices are made with an appropriate knowledge of the real conditions. This practical guide introduces the main techniques of trade and trade policy data analysis.
In the 1920s and 1930s France invested great sums of money and materials in constructing the Maginot Line along the Franco-German border. e line consisted of a complex of closely linked tren es and ...
The chief's 1 P.M. meeting ended earlier than anticipated, so they had twenty minutes to review Lester's table of correlation statistics before his 3 P.M. appointment. Chief Warren looked over the statistics on demandanddeployment ...
Key features: Each chapter has the most up-to-date and simple option available for each task, assuming minimal prerequisites and no previous experience in R Makes extensive use of the Tidyverse, the group of packages that has revolutionized ...
This handbook of data analysis with worked examples focuses on the application of mathematical and statistical techniques and the interpretation of their results.
A thoroughly revised new edition of the authoritative guide to the process of policy making in government.