Introduction to public policy analysis; Preview; What is policy analysis; Toward professional ethics; Conceptual foundations for problem analysis; Efficiency and the idealized competitive model; Rationales for public policy : market failures; Rationales for public policy : other limitations of the competitive framework; Rationales for public policy : distributional and other goals; Limits to public intervention : government failures; Policy problems as market and government failure : the madison taxicab policy analysis example; Conceptual foundations for solution analysis; Correcting market and government failures : generic policies; Adoption; implementation; Government supply : drawing organizational boundaries; Doing policy analysis; Gathering information for policy analysis; Landing on your feet : organizing your policy analysis; Case study : the canadian pacific salmon fisher; Cost-benefit analysis : assessing efficiency; Public agency strategic analysis : identifying opportunities for increasing social value; Conclusion ; Doing well and doing good