How should policy analysts assess 'benefit validity' when behavioral anomalies appear relevant? David L. Weimer provides thoughtful answers through practical guidelines.  Meer

Originally published in 1997, The Political Economy of Property Rights reports on comparative research into the transformation of property rights in post-communist countries and China.  Meer

Originally published in 1997, The Political Economy of Property Rights reports on comparative research into the transformation of property rights in post-communist countries and China.  Meer

Long before policy analysis emerged as a separate profession with its own graduate schools, economists offered advice about government policies. Positive economics provides the tools for predicting the impacts of prop­ osed policies; normative economics, especially welfare theory, offers a framework for valuing the impacts of policies in terms of efficiency and simple notions of equity.  Meer

Policy scientists have long been concerned with understanding the basic tools, or instruments, that governments can use to accomplish their goals. The initial interest in inductively developing comprehensive lists of generic instruments for policy analysis soon gave way to efforts to discover more parsimonious, but still useful, specifications of the elementary components out of which instruments can be assembled.  Meer

Offers the most comprehensive, serious treatment of policy analysis on the market. Provides students with a clear understanding of why markets fail, how governments fail, what the alternatives are for correcting policy failures, how to choose between many different policy options, and how to structure, write, and present a policy recommendation to promote desirable policy change.  Meer

Offers the most comprehensive, serious treatment of policy analysis on the market. Provides students with a clear understanding of why markets fail, how governments fail, what the alternatives are for correcting policy failures, how to choose between many different policy options, and how to structure, write, and present a policy recommendation to promote desirable policy change.  Meer

How should policy analysts assess 'benefit validity' when behavioral anomalies appear relevant? David L. Weimer provides thoughtful answers through practical guidelines.  Meer

Governments throughout the industrialized world make decisions that fundamentally affect the quality and accessibility of medical care. This title explores an alternative regulatory approach to medical care based on the delegation of decisions about the allocation of scarce medical resources to private nonprofit organizations.  Meer

Long before policy analysis emerged as a separate profession with its own graduate schools, economists offered advice about government policies. Positive economics provides the tools for predicting the impacts of prop­ osed policies; normative economics, especially welfare theory, offers a framework for valuing the impacts of policies in terms of efficiency and simple notions of equity.  Meer

Policy scientists have long been concerned with understanding the basic tools, or instruments, that governments can use to accomplish their goals. The initial interest in inductively developing comprehensive lists of generic instruments for policy analysis soon gave way to efforts to discover more parsimonious, but still useful, specifications of the elementary components out of which instruments can be assembled.  Meer

Stakeholders make rules for the allocation of transplant organs in the United States. This book considers how well stakeholder rulemaking taps relevant expertise and balances competing values in efforts to implement new allocation frameworks.  Meer

Stakeholders make rules for the allocation of transplant organs in the United States. This book considers how well stakeholder rulemaking taps relevant expertise and balances competing values in efforts to implement new allocation frameworks.  Meer

Localises the source of our irrationality in the limbic id - the part of our brain that endlessly thirsts for status, sex, territory, nurturance, and survival.  Meer

Often described as a public policy “bible,” Weimer and Vining remains the essential primer it ever was. Now in a thoroughly revised seventh edition, Policy Analysis provides a strong conceptual foundation of the rationales for and the limitations to public policy.  Meer