Analyzing Policy: Choices, Conflicts and Practices

Michael C. Munger

W W Norton & Company Incorporated, 2000 - Political Science - 430 pages

This readable and comprehensive introduction to the principles of public-policy analysis is the first book to integrate the tools students need to analyze policies with the common sense they need to understand how real policies are made.

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Review: Analyzing Policy: Choices, Conflicts, and Practices (The New Institutionalism in American Politics)

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Every so often, I have taught graduate (and even undergraduate) courses in policy analysis. While I have never assigned this book, it is commonly on my "short list" of possible texts. Thus, I ...

Review: Analyzing Policy: Choices, Conflicts, and Practices (The New Institutionalism in American Politics)

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Munger outlines the language used in and the tools for analyzing organizational policy. Decision-making in any political environment always depends on a range of criteria. This idea is demonstrated in ...

About the author

Michael C. Munger is an associate professor of political science at Duke University. Professor Munger has also served as a policy analyst for the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C., and as president of the Public Choice Society from 1996ndash;1998.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Analyzing Policy: Choices, Conflicts and Practices; New Institutionalism in American Politics Series
• Author: Michael C. Munger
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated, 2000
• ISBN: 0393973999, 9780393973990
• Length: 430 pages
• Subjects: Political Science / General; Political Science / Public Affairs & Administration; Political Science / Public Policy / General