Handbook of Public Policy Evaluation
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Handbook of Public Policy Evaluation is the only book of its kind to present aspects of public policy evaluation that relate to economic, technology, social, political, international, and legal problems. Rather than looking at specific narrowly focused programs, this book emphasizes broad-based evaluation theory, study, and application, providing a rich variety of exceptional insights and ideas. Designed to facilitate integration and coherence, key features in this volume include: Systematic evaluation, measuring the policy alternatives available for achieving goals Win-win evaluation, processing policy alternatives that can enable conservatives, liberals, and other major viewpoints to all come out ahead of their best initial expectations simultaneously Policy evaluation, offering methods, examples, studies, professionalism, perspectives, concepts, trends, substance, theory, applications, dispute resolution, interdisciplinary interaction and bibliographies and applications The book targets the need for improvement in the methods, processes, and substance of public policy and opens the gate of public policy to be more effective, efficient, and equitable. Policymakers, administrators, analysts, and practitioners alike will find the Handbook a necessary resource of alternative public policies that are placed in context with a direct course to positive results. 

Table of Contents:
Introduction SECTION I: FOUNDATION IDEAS PART 1: WIN-WIN METHODS 1. Win-Win Analysis Summarized 2. The Big Trade-Off: Fundamental Law or Red Herring? - R. Haveman 3. Win-Win Equity 4. Lose-Lose and Win-Win Policies 5. Graphic Approaches to Understanding Super-Optimizing PART 2: WIN-WIN EXAMPLES 6. Preventing Sexual Harassment While Preserving Academic Freedom: A Win-Win Analysis - T.R. Dye 7. Two Super-Optimum Solutions in a Cutback Mode - R. Golembiewski 8. Univesity to Industry Transfer - D. Rahm & V. Hansen 9. Profit Sharing and Job Anxiety: Moving Public Policy Toward a Win-Win Solution - D. Mitchell 10. Another Win-Win Occurrence PART 3: PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES 11. Policy Evaluation Questions 12. Integrating Institutions and Implementation Into Policy Decisions - D.W. Brinkeerhoff 13. Public and Private Sectors for Administering Public Functions 14. Sherman and Shark on Policy Evaluation PART 4: POLICY PROFESSIONALISM 15. Productivity for Success 16. Professionalism Books for Graduate Students and Others 17. Survey on Running a Policy Program 18. Academic Tyranny: The Tale and the Lessons - R. Weissberg PART 5: POLICYMAKER PERSPECTIVES 19. Public Health Challenges - D.E. Shalala SECTION II: POLICY EVALUATION AT THE CUTTING EDGE PART 1: BASIC CONCEPTS 20. Policy Theory 21. Building Frameworks for Policy Analysis - L. Paquette 22. Causal Relations Among Policy Fields PART 2: METHODS AND PROFESSIONALISM 23. Diverse Methods for Policy Analysis 24. Interactive Policy Analysis: Process Methods for Policy Reform - L.G. White 25. Changing Policy Research 26. Recruiting People and Obtaining Funds 27. Funding for Policy Evaluation PART 3: POLICY EVALUATION TRENDS 28. Trends in Cross-Cutting Procedural Policy Issues 29. Public Policy in the 20th Century 30. The Future of the Policy Studies Organization PART 4: POLICY EVALUATION SUBSTANCE 31. Welfare Reform - J. Engler 32. "Ordinary" Injustice: A Memo to the Editor - C.H. Moore 33. Congressional Campaign Reform - R.K. Goidel, et al 34. Violence, Guns, Media, and Fathers - M. Huckabee PART 5: WIN-WIN THEORY 35. Super-Optimizing Solution Graphing 36. Win-Win Game Theory 37. Win-Win Mediation 38. Win-Win Allocation 39. Inconsistent Reactions to Win-Win Analysis PART 6: WIN-WIN APPLICATIONS 40. Coeffects Diagrams and Win-Win Analysis 41. Win-Win Economics 42. Super-Optimization: A New Approach to National Environmental Policymaking - L. Susskiind 43. Win-Win Decentralizing 44. Win-Win Justice SECTION III: POLICY EVALUATION BIBLIOGRAPHIES PART 1: POLICY EVALUATION IN GENERAL 45. Core Bibliography and Background 46. Policy Problems or Subfields PART 2: POLICY STUDIES ORGANIZATION BOOKS 47. Policy Studies Organization Policy Books 48. Recent Policy Studies Organization Policy Books 49. The Impact of Policy Studies Organization Books PART 3: ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION (ADR) AND SUPER-OPTIMUM SOLUTION (SOS) 50. Alternative Dispute Resolution 51. Literature Relevant to Super-Optimum Solutions 52. Super-Optimum Solution Publications Bibliography From Creativity in Public Policy: Generating Super-Optimum Solutions 54. Further Reading on Super-Optimum Solutions PART 4: PROFESSIONALISM IN POLICY EVALUATION 55. Obtaining Funding 56. Getting Published 57. Finding an Academic Niche 58. Creativity PART 5: PUBLIC POLICY AND OTHER DISCIPLINES 59. Natural Science 60. Humanities 61. Social Science PART 6: SPECIAL RESOURCES 62. Policy Problems by Developing Regions 63. Policy Studies Organization Books 64. Legal Policy Index About the Editor

About the Author :
Stuart S. Nagel was professor emeritus of political science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was secretary-treasurer and publications coordinator of the Policy Studies Organization and coordinator of the Dirksen-Stevenson Institute and the MKM Research Center. He held a Ph.D. in political science and a J.D. in law, both from Northwestern University. His major awards include fellowships and grants from the Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, National Science Foundation, National Social Science Council, East-West Center, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. His previous positions include being an attorney to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, the National Labor Relations Board, and the Legal Services Corporation. He has been a professor at the University of Arizona and Penn State University.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781452261560
  • Publisher: Sage Publications Inc Ebooks
  • Publisher Imprint: SAGE Publications Inc
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1452261563
  • Publisher Date: 13 Dec 2001
  • Binding: Digital download and online
  • No of Pages: 424


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