TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bardach,Eugene
TI  - A practical guide for policy analysis: the eightfold path to more effective problem solving 
SN  - 1568029233
AV  - H 97 B245p 2005
U1  - 320/.6 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Washington
PB  - CQ Press
KW  - Policy sciences
KW  - Decision making
KW  - Problem solving
KW  - Ciencias políticas
KW  - Toma de decisiones
KW  - Resolución de problemas
N1  - 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; Distribution is restricted to RFB & D members who have a documented print disability such as a visual impairment, learning disability or other physical disability
N2  - [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
ER  -