David L. Weimer is Edwin E. Witte Professor of Political Economy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. His contributions to public policy scholarship have been widely recognized as he has received the Policy Field Distinguished Contribution Award from the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management and the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis.

Aidan R. Vining is Emeritus CNABS Professor of Business and Government Relations at Simon Fraser University, Canada. He is a winner of the John Vanderkamp Prize (Canadian Economics Association) and the J.E. Hodgetts Award (Institute of Public Administration of Canada). He has published widely.

PART I: Introduction to Public Policy Analysis 1 Preview 2 What is Policy Analysis? 3 Toward Professional Ethics PART II: Conceptual Foundations for Problem Analysis 4 Efficiency and the Idealized Competitive Model 5 Rationales for Public Policy: Market Failures 6 Rationales for Public Policy: Other Limitations of the Competitive Framework 7 Rationales for Public Policy: Distributional and Other Goals 8 Limits to Public Intervention: Government Failures 9 Policy Problems as Market and Government Failures: Regulating Platforms PART III: Conceptual Foundations for Solution Analysis 10 Correcting Market and Government Failures: Generic Policies 11 Adoption 12 Implementation 13 Government Provision: Drawing Organizational Boundaries PART IV: Doing Policy Analysis 14 Gathering Information for Policy Analysis 15 Landing on Your Feet: Organizing a Policy Analysis 16 Case Study: The Canadian Pacific Salmon Fishery 17 Cost- Benefit Analysis: Assessing Efficiency 18 Public Agency Strategic Analysis: Identifying Opportunities for Increasing Social Value PART V: Conclusion 19 Doing Well and Doing Good