Evaluating Public Policy (1995)

This text differs from others--not only does it teach students how to evaluate the empirical aspects of a public policy--but also provides an analytical framework for assessing the value judgements that infuse policy decisions. Students learn to assess whether a program reflects the kinds of things that society ought to be doing.

Preface

1. Public Policy Analysis as Practical Deliberation: Integrating Empirical and Normative Evaluation

Part I. Program Verification

2. Evaluating Program Outcomes: Empirical Logic and Methods

3. Debating the Head Start Program: The Westinghouse Reading Scores in Normative Perspective

Part II. Situational Validation

4. Evaluating Program Objectives: Multiple Criteria and Situational Relevance

5. Contesting the Times Square Redevelopment Study: Problem Definition and the Politics of Criteria

Part III. Societal-Level Vindication

6. Evaluating Policy Goals: Normative Assumptions and Societal Conséquences 
7. Reassessing Disability Policy Goals: Equal Rightsversus Societal Costs 

Part IV. Social Choice

8. Evaluating Ideological Commitments: Public Policy, Social Values, and the Good Society

You can access the book via these platforms:

• Free access - read online or download from dropbox
• Frank Fischer_Evaluating Public Policy_1999 by IPPA Public Policy on Scribd