POLICY AND PUBLIC PROBLEMS

Policy and Public Problems

Policy and Public Problems

Introduction

Interpretation of policy analysis shares the assumption that government is a process of official problem solving, and the task of policy analysis is to identify the problems, the participants, the responses, and the outcomes. The analyst is seen as the source of expert knowledge on what has been done and could be done, and the focus is on what is described as the “substance” of policy problems and putative solutions, rather than on the process. Here, the distinction between analysis of and analysis for has tended to fade, as the outside observers ...