Panel Discussion with City/County Managers

Introductions

Review syllabus & assignments

Assign teams & cases

Assign library tour session

Policy Analysis - Art vs. science

Policy analysis as rational decision making

Individual vs. group decision making

Steps in the policy analysis process

Working for client

Working with the public

Ethical issues & value conflicts

Policy analysis as a profession

Problem definition

Problem Framing

Thinking creatively

Types of data & sources

Conducting interviews

Evaluating data & information

Displaying information

Steps in the policy process

Agenda setting and the democratization of policy analysis

Policy analysis as an extension of rational decision making

Role of policy analysts in the policy process

Steps in process of policy analysis

Steps in the policy process

Agenda setting and the democratization of policy analysis

Policy analysis as an extension of rational decision making

Role of policy analysts in the policy process

Steps in process of policy analysis

What govt does & why it does it?

Are all problems public policy problems

Public goods vs. private goods

Market failures

Externalities

Monopolies

Information asymmetries

Finding alternatives

Lesson drawing & best practices research

Diffusion of innovations

Policy instruments

Goals vs. policies

Comparing outcomes not alternatives

Goals, alternatives, outcomes matrices

Sensitivity analysis

Forecasting

Trend extrapolation

Decision trees

Game theory

Operations research & linear programming

B-C Analysis vs. cost effectiveness analysis

Opportunity costs

Tangible vs. intangible costs Discount rates & time

Valuing inputs & outcomes

Present vs. future value