Landing on Your Feet
How to Confront Policy Problems
The focus of this chapter is on strategies for how one should construct and execute a policy analysis, while keeping the notion that policy analysis as a process involves formulating and communicating useful advice to a client.
The suggested first step in doing a policy analysis is to do an analysis of your analysis. A self analysis should influence the way in which you go about doing a policy analysis. One may base the self-analysis either on the first attempt at a policy analysis, or on past experience in writing academic papers. The former is the preferred method.