1. Development and Application of International Policy Lessons
2. Macroeconomic and Fiscal Policies
3. Urban Transport and Public Infrastructure
4. Health Care Policies
5. Financial Sector Policy
6. Educational Policy
7. Energy and Environmental Policies
8. Summary and Conclusions
Biography
George M. Guess is Adjunct Professor in the School of Policy, Government, and International Affairs at George Mason University, USA.
Thomas A. Husted is Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics at American University, USA.
"Although the market for how-to-do-policy-analysis textbooks looks crowded at first glance, there is room for fresh perspectives such as that offered by George M. Guess and Thomas Husted’s International Public Policy Analysis. In addition to incorporating budget analysis and financial management methods into the standard methodology toolbox, Guess and Husted offer a distinctive interpretation of policy analysis as being fundamentally about smart policy transfer, with a particular focus on the knowledge and skills needed to draw appropriate lessons from international experience and apply them effectively to new contexts. The book fuses familiar components (a strong public choice focus on incentives and economic methods) with less familiar insights from the worlds of comparative policy analysis and public finance to produce a new approach that is innovative without being revolutionary." – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
"International Public Policy Analysis offers a thoughtful analysis of the transferability of best policy practices across countries. The authors reflect on the complexity of public policy and the need for a nuanced, culture-specific approach to policy design." –Valentina Dimitrova-Grajzl, Virginia Military Institute, USA
"Guess and Husted combine their substantial research backgrounds and consulting experiences to produce this unique book about public policy analysis that offers extremely detailed evaluation of a wide variety of modern public policy problems. Their analytical framework application for policy problems globally promises scholars, students, and practitioners insight into the often overwhelming complexity of these problems, yet delivers well regarding how such problems might be better examined and the possibilities of lessons learned for solving them." – Katherine Willoughby, Georgia State University, USA
