{"product_id":"expert-advice-for-policy-choice-analysis-and-discourse-american-governance-and-public-policy-series","title":"Expert Advice for Policy Choice: Analysis and Discourse (American Governance and Public Policy Series)","description":"Economic reasoning has thus far dominated the field of public policy analysis. This new introduction to the field posits that policy analysis should have both a broader interdisciplinary base―including criteria from such fields as political science, sociology, law, and philosophy, as well as economics―and also a broader audience in order to foster democratic debate.\n\nTo achieve these goals, MacRae and Whittington have organized their textbook around the construction of decision matrices using multiple criteria, exploring the uses of the decision matrix formulation more fully than other texts. They describe how to set up the matrix, fill in cells and combine criteria, and use it as an aid for decision making. They show how ethical assessment of the affects that alternatives have on various parties differs from political analysis, and then they extend the use of the decision matrix to consider alternatives by affected parties, periods of time, or combined factors.\n\nThe authors also thoughtfully address the role of expert advice in the policy process, widening the scope of the field to describe a complex system for the creation and use of knowledge in a democracy.\n\nAn extended case study of HIV\/AIDS policy follows each chapter (in installments), immediately illustrating the application of the material. The book also contains a glossary.\n\nExpert Advice for Policy Choice provides a new basis for graduate education in public policy analysis and can also serve as a text in planning, evaluation research, or public administration. In addition, it will be of interest to students and professionals wishing to aid policy choice who work in such fields as sociology, political science, psychology, public health, and social work.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0878406417\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0878406417.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Duncan MacRae, Jr.|Dale Whittington\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item is very worn but is perfectly usable. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing  age related spots and browning . May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43474770624573,"sku":"BVV.0878406417.A","price":24.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0878406417-0.jpg?v=1786741498","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/expert-advice-for-policy-choice-analysis-and-discourse-american-governance-and-public-policy-series","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}