Theory and Practice in Policy Analysis: Including Applications in Science and Technology

ISBN-13: 9781316636206 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 604 str.

M. Granger Morgan

Opis

Practitioners of policy analysis will better understand the tools of their trade, and the broader contexts in which analysis contributes.

Spis treści

1. Policy analysis: an overview; Part I. Making Decisions that Maximize Utility: 2. Preferences and the idea of utility; 3. Benefit–cost analysis; 4. Decision analysis; 5. Valuing intangibles and other non-market outcomes; 6. Multi-attribute utility theory and multi-criteria decision making with Jared L. Cohon; 7. Preferences over time and across space; Part II. Some Widely Used Analysis Tools and Topics: 8. Characterizing, analyzing, and communicating uncertainty; 9. Expert elicitation; 10. Risk analysis; 11. The use of models in policy analysis; Part III. How Individuals and Organizations Actually Make Decisions: 12. Human mental processes for perception, memory, and decision making; 13. Risk perception and risk ranking; 14. Risk communication; 15. Organizational behavior and decision making; Part IV. The Policy Process and S&T Policy (Mainly) in the United States: 16. Analysis and the policy process; 17. The period prior to World War II; 18. US science and technology policy from World War II to 1960; 19. Science and technology advice to government; Appendices; Index.