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Public policy analysis is a large, sprawling intellectual enterprise involving numerous academic disciplines, private research organizations, and governmental agencies each sharing a common concern with the formulation, implementation, or consequences of public policy decisions. There are approximately thirty journals published in the English language alone and nearly twenty professional associations that are devoted more or less exclusively to policy analysis. Departments, centers, and institutes dealing in whole or in part with policy analysis can be found at over forty American universities.
As currently practiced, policy analysis involves contributions from the entire gamut of scientific disciplines. Much present-day public policy analysis is undertaken by scholars from the various applied physical and biological sciences (for example, environmental impact studies, technology assessments, seismic risk analyses, and the like). The focus here, however, is on public policy analysis as it is conducted within the social and behavioral sciences...
This section contains 3,812 words (approx. 13 pages at 300 words per page) |