"Rush to Policy" explores the appropriate role of technical
analysis in policy formation. The authors ask when and how the use
of sophisticated analytic techniques in decision making benefits
the nation. They argue that these techniques are too often used in
situations where they may not be needed or understood by the
decision maker; where they may not be able to answer the questions
raised but are nonetheless required by the law.
House and Shull provide an excellent empirical base for
describing the impact of politics on policies, policy analysis, and
policy analysts. They examine cost benefit analysis, risk analysis,
and decision analysis, and assess their ability to substitute for
the current decision making process in the public sector. They
examine the political basis of public sector decision making, how
individuals and organizations make decisions, and the ways
decisions are made in the federal sector. Also they discuss the
mandate to use these methods in the policy formulation process.
The book is written by two practicing federal policy analysts
who, in a decade of service as policy researchers, developed
sophisticated quantitative analytic and decision-making techniques.
They then spent several years trying to use them in the real world.
Successes and failures are described in illuminating detail,
providing insight not commonly found in such critiques. The authors
delineate the interaction of politics and technical issues. Their
book describes policy analysis as it is, not how it ought to
be.
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