Just in...Legislative policy analysis

Power, Knowledge, and Politics: Policy Analysis in the States (Georgetown University Press, 240p.), is a study of nonpartisan policy research organizations of state legislatures. Author John A. Hird is associate professor of political science and director of the Center for Public Policy and Administration at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He analyzes the connection between policy research and actual decision making and the effects of politics and political institutions on the nature and conduct of nonpartisan policy analysis. (H97 H56 2005)