Analyzing Public Policy

by Dipak K. Gupta

The skills students learn in policy analysis courses are crucial to their future careers in public policy and public administration. In "Analyzing public policy : conceptss, tools, and techniques", Dipak Gupta guides students, step by step, toward a mastery of the skills that policy analysts use every day to evaluate and solve public problems. Conversational and engaging, this introductory text is specifically designed to make easily accessible even the most challenging concepts and methods of analysis.The first four chapters introduce the basic foundations of public policy analysis. Subsequent chapters fill the policy analysis "toolbox" with the skills and techniques of basic statistics, probability and hypothesis testing, survey design, graphical analysis, projection, multiple regression, decision trees, game theory, and benefit-cost analysis. Throughout, concepts are clearly defined and illustrated with specific cases that draw on real-life policy dilemmas, underscoring the practica