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Rationales for Public Policy
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Topics
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 | What government does and why it does it |
| Are all problems public policy problems? |
| Public goods, private goods, toll goods, & common
pool resources |
| Market failures |
| Externalities |
| Monopolies |
| Information asymmetries |
| Transaction costs |
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Readings
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| RES #4: Michael Kraft and Scott Furlong. 2004. Public
Policy: Politics, Analysis, and Alternatives. Washington, DC:
Congressional Quarterly Press. pages 3 - 31. |
| RES #5: Dipak K. Gupta, 2001. Analyzing Public Policy: Concepts, Tools, and
Techniques. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press. pages
20 - 45. |
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Lecture Notes
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Web Resources
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Books of Possible Interest
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| Weimer,
David L. and Aidan R. Vining. 2005. Policy Analysis: Concepts and
Practice. Fourth Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
ISBN 0-13-109083-6 |
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