Overview
Averch describes and analyzes common strategies for solving problems in public policy. The strategies discussed include the use of markets, bureaus, regulation, planning and budgeting, benefit-cost, systems analysis, and evaluation. He examines the historical development of each strategy; describes how each strategy would ideally work; explains the necessary or sufficient conditions that permit each strategy to work; lists the potential failures of each strategy; and provides a judgment or appraisal of each strategy.
- | Author: Harvey Averch
- | Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
- | Publication Date: Jan 15, 1991
- | Number of Pages: 240 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0822954370
- | ISBN-13: 9780822954378
