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A 6 page research paper that looks at public policy, its formulation and implementation. This examination looks at the approach to pubic policy advocated by Weimer and Vining (1992) and Majone (1989), utilizing the factors in public policy formation identified by Peters (1999) as a guide to evaluating these two models. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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citizens to which such policy becomes the rule of law. While the importance of public policy is a factor agreed upon by all experts, there is debate as to how,
precisely, policymakers should go about this process. The following examination looks at the approach to pubic policy advocated by Weimer and Vining (1992) and Majone (1989), utilizing the factors in
public policy formation identified by Peters (1999) as a guide to evaluating these two models. According to Weimer and Vining (1992), the policy analyst is mainly concerned with collective
action that involves the legitimate coercive powers of government. They propose that the following definition for "policy analysis," which is that this term refers to "client-oriented advice relevant to public
decisions and informed by social values" (p. 1). As this suggests, Weimer and Vining emphasize that public policy analysis, as a professional activity, is client-oriented. In the first section of
their text, they outline the ethical issues that are inherent to this orientation. They then go on to offer specific rationales for public policy decisions and catalogue generic policy solutions
that point toward starting points that can be utilized in formulating specific policy alternatives (Weimer and Vining, 1992). To summarize the Weimer and Vining approach, the perspective they advocate
is that policy formulation should employ a "craft" perspective. By "craft," these authors indicate the skillful application of a set of practices that utilizes and informs the consideration of collective
choices (Weimer and Vining, 1992). They argue that policy analysis craft is made up of more than rational/empiricist methodology and specifically encompasses discursive and interpretive elements that arise in the
discovery of relevant values and goals and in the creation of policy alternatives (Weimer and Vining, 1992). The craft perspective, according to Weimer and Vining has several advantages over broader
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