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THINKINGLIKEAPOLICYANALYST
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Thinking like a policy analyst : policy analysis as a clinical
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1. Policy sciences—Methodology. 2. Policy sciences—Study and
teaching. 3. Thought and thinking—Social aspects. 4. Public
administration—Decision making. 5. Decision making—Philosophy.
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To my daughter Moran, for discussions
on dimensions of clinical studies that made
this book possible
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List of Figures ix
List of Tables xi
List of Appendices xiii
Notes on Contributors xv
Acknowledgments xxi
Foreword xxiii
Clinical Reasoning at Work: An Introduction to
the Rationale of this Book 1
Iris Geva-May
Part One Doing Policy Analysis:
Clinical and Diagnostic Considerations 13
1. Thinking Like a Policy Analyst: Policy Analysis
as a Clinical Profession 15
Iris Geva-May
Part Two Principles and Clinical
Professional Reasoning Processes: Their
Application in Other Clinical Disciplines 51
2. Teaching Clinical Reasoning to Undergraduate
Medical Students 53
Jochanan Benbassat
3. Clinical Legal Education:
A Twenty-first-Century Perspective 73
Anthony G. Amsterdam
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4. Case Teaching and Intellectual Performances in Public
Management 83
Michael Barzelay and Fred Thompson
5. Training and Supervision of Clinical Psychologists 109
Amy S. Janeck and Steven Taylor
Part Three Principles and Clinical
Professional Reasoning Processes:
Their Application in Policy Analysis 125
6. Policy Maps and Political Feasibility 127
Peter J. May
7. The P-Case: One Strategy for Creating the
Policy Analysis “Case” 153
Aidan R. Vining and David L. Weimer
8. Preparing for the Craft of Policy Analysis: The Capstone
Experience 171
Peter deLeon and Spiros Protopsaltis
9. Practice, Practice, Practice: The Clinical Education
of Policy Analysts at the NYU/Wagner School 187
Dennis C. Smith
10. Defining Policy Goals Through the Stages of the
Policy Process: Creating the U.S. Department
of Education 213
Beryl A. Radin
11. Case Study Method and Policy Analysis 227
Leslie A. Pal
12. I Don’t Teach by the Case 259
Eugene Smolensky
13. Balancing Pedagogy: Supplementing Cases with
Policy Simulations in Public Affairs Education 269
Michael I. Luger
Index of Names 285
Index of Subject Matter 291
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1.1 Policy analysis as a professional field 18
1.2 Policy analysis reasoning as a clinical
diagnostic process 22
1.3 Chain components of the diagnostic
cognitive process 23
6.1 Health care reform policy issues and potential
policy provisions 134
6.2 Selected health care reform policy proposals 135
6.3 Interest group positions for health care
policy provisions 139
6.4 Bases of support and opposition for policy proposals 141
7.1 Problem and solution analysis 159
9.1 Policy analysis as a field 189
9.2 James Thompson’s decision-making matrix 193
9.3 Logic model for Wagner capstones 196
11.1 ICANN organizational chart, 2002 249
13.1 Distribution of case years 274
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