what Can Be Learned from Policy Analysis?
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Policy analysis is finding out what governments do, why they do it, and what differ
ence, if any, it makes. What can be learned from policy analysis?
Description. First, we can describe we can what i
public
doing (and not doing)
in welfare, education, civil rights, health, the environ
ment, taxation, and so on. A factual basis of information about national policy
an indispensable part of everyone's What does the Civil Rights Act of 1964
education
actually say about discrimination in employment? What
did the Supreme Court rule in
the Bakke case about affirmative action programs? What is the condition of the nation's
Social Security program
What do the Medicaid and Medicare programs promise for the
poor and the aged? What agreements have been reached between the United States and
,being
done to fight terrorism at home and
ng nuclear weapons? W
Russia
abroad? How much money are we paying in t
How much money does the federal
government spend each year, and what does it spend
it on? These are examples of
descriptive questions