Table of Contents

Part 1 Building a Background for Public Policy Analysis; Ch 2 What is the state?; Ch3 The Market System at Work; Ch 4 Issues in Public Economies; Ch 5 Intervention and Market Failure; Ch 6 Decision making: Who influences Whom; Ch 7 Interest Groups and Theory of Market Segmentation; Part 2 Contemporary Issues in Policy Analysis; Ch 8 Competition; Ch 9 Privatisation and the Economics of Interest groups; Ch 10 Community Service Obligations: A strategy to avoid collective failure; Ch 11 Accountability and the Democratic Process

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Structured logically and sequentially to introduce students to the key elements of policy analysis

About the Author

Ewen Michael is at La Trobe University.