The purpose of this web site is to complement the book. Your feedback on this web site would be greatly appreciated. Please send any comments, questions, or suggestions to michael.ensley@duke.edu.

The following links for each chapter contain a discussion question, a data set for the analysis of each discussion question, and a list of links to other relevant web sites.

• Chapter 1 - An Overview of Policy Analysis as a Profession and a Process
  
  
• Chapter 2 - Deciding How to Decide: "experts," "the people," and "the market"
  
  
• Chapter 3 - A Benchmark for Performance: What is a "Market?"
  
  
• Chapter 4 - Evaluation and "Market Failure": Criteria for Intervention
  
  
• Chapter 5 - Experts and "Advocacy": The Limits of Policy Analysis
  
  
• Chapter 6 - Democracy and "Government Failure": The Limits of Choice by the People
  
  
• Chapter 7 - The Welfare Economics Paradigm: Introduction to Analytics
  
  
• Chapter 8 - Choice of Regulatory Form: Efficiency, Equity, or Politics?
  
  
• Chapter 9 - Discounting I: Probability, Expected Values, and Risk
  
  
• Chapter 10 - Discounting II: Time
  
  
• Chapter 11 - Cost-Benefit Analysis