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A 3 page paper. Three categories of policy analysts and their basic emphases are reported. The issue that seems to drive policy analysis today is reported and the need for ethics to be included in policy analysis is discussed. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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world of political choice often seems a landscape distinguished by the remarkable variation in shades of gray (Trzyna, 2004). Duffy, Miller and Hope report there are three types of
policy analysts: objective technician, a client advocate, or an issue advocate. (2003). These categories reflect these values: "analytical integrity, responsibility to the client, and ones personal conception of a good
society" (Duffy, Miller and Hope, 2003). Typically, each analyst is a combination of these three types and also typically, operationalize each of the three different values (Duffy, Miller and Hope,
2003). The objective technician believes the analysis should be able to stand alone, on its own merit, and tries to provide the client with balanced information (Duffy, Miller and Hope,
2003). This type of analyst focuses on the consequences of different policies (Duffy, Miller and Hope, 2003). Client advocates focus on the subjectivity and ambiguity of a policy so
as to make a report that is more favorable to the clients wishes and goals (Duffy, Miller and Hope, 2003). Analysts who are issue-driven will often only select clients who
promote their own points of view regarding specific issues (Duffy, Miller and Hope, 2003). Both the issues-driven and client-driven analyst is likely to ignore any kind of relevant data or
information that does not support the goal (Duffy, Miller and Hope, 2003). The three foci: analytical integrity (the objective analyst), being driven by ones feelings of responsibility to the
client and being driven by ones own beliefs about the good society make separating data from biases difficult, at best, and impossible, at worst (Duffy, Miller and Hope, 2003). Trzyna
asserts that in recent years, there seem to be two methods of policy analysis that "often seem to amount to elaborate dances around the tough value choices at the crux
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