Handbook of Public Policy Evaluation

Stuart S. Nagel - University of Illinois, Carbondale

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Public Policy & Public Administration

January 2002 | 424 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

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This Handbook deals with many aspects of public policy evaluation including methods, examples, studies, professionalism, perspectives, concepts, trends, substance, theory, applications, dispute resolution, interdisciplinary interaction and bibliographies. A rich variety of insights and alternative perspectives on systematic policy evaluation, as well as ideas and applications dealing with win-win policy evaluation are, brought together to create a unique resource in public policy evaluation.

Introduction

SECTION I: FOUNDATION IDEAS

PART 1: WIN-WIN METHODS

1. Win-Win Analysis Summarized

R. Haveman

2. The Big Trade-Off: Fundamental Law or Red Herring?

3. Win-Win Equity

4. Lose-Lose and Win-Win Policies

5. Graphic Approaches to Understanding Super-Optimizing

PART 2: WIN-WIN EXAMPLES

T.R. Dye

6. Preventing Sexual Harassment While Preserving Academic Freedom: A Win-Win Analysis

R. Golembiewski

7. Two Super-Optimum Solutions in a Cutback Mode

D. Rahm & V. Hansen

8. Univesity to Industry Transfer

D. Mitchell

9. Profit Sharing and Job Anxiety: Moving Public Policy Toward a Win-Win Solution

10. Another Win-Win Occurrence

PART 3: PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES

11. Policy Evaluation Questions

D.W. Brinkeerhoff

12. Integrating Institutions and Implementation Into Policy Decisions

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

R. Weissberg

18. Academic Tyranny: The Tale and the Lessons

PART 5: POLICYMAKER PERSPECTIVES

D.E. Shalala

19. Public Health Challenges

SECTION II: POLICY EVALUATION AT THE CUTTING EDGE

PART 1: BASIC CONCEPTS

20. Policy Theory

L. Paquette

21. Building Frameworks for Policy Analysis

22. Causal Relations Among Policy Fields

PART 2: METHODS AND PROFESSIONALISM

23. Diverse Methods for Policy Analysis

L.G. White

24. Interactive Policy Analysis: Process Methods for Policy Reform

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

J. Engler

31. Welfare Reform

C.H. Moore

32. "Ordinary" Injustice: A Memo to the Editor

R.K. Goidel, et al

33. Congressional Campaign Reform

M. Huckabee

34. Violence, Guns, Media, and Fathers

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

L. Susskiind

42. Super-Optimization: A New Approach to National Environmental Policymaking

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

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