A practical guide for policy analysis: the eightfold path to more effective problem solving / Eugene Bardach.

Originally published: Washington, D.C. : CQ Press,

Includes bibliographical references.

Eightfold path -- Step one: define the problem -- Step two: assemble some evidence -- Step three: construct the alternatives -- Step four: select the criteria -- Step five: project the outcomes -- Step six: confront the trade-offs -- Step seven: decide! -- Step eight: tell your story -- Assembling evidence -- "Smart (best) practices" research, understanding and making use of what look like good ideas from somewhere else.

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[This book] provides students and practitioners with usable suggestions about how to conduct policy analysis. [In the book, the author] utilizes many ... examples to demonstrate the varied meanings of important concepts in the field and also provides suggestions as to how these concepts might be used in conducting policy analyses. [It] is helpful to students and scholars of public policy regardless of their approach.-Back cover.