POLI 211 Chapter : Institutional Analysis and Performance Evaluation
28 Sep 2013
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Ostrom de nes policy analysis as the way in which political scientists and. The second mode of analysis ostrom presents is the top-down approach which. Political policy analysis- legislators would explain the political and social consequences of a certain piece of legislation. He initially introduces two different modes of analysis for political policies. The rst is a means-ends analysis where in order to determine the affects of a piece of legislation one must take into consideration the end or the goal of that piece of legislation. The end will help the analyzer determine the correct process for the program to become a policy. The example from the text is with a pure water campaign put in place with the obvious goal of clean water. Ostrom says that in order to analyze the success of this legislation one must look at the affects of the goal and the means by which to achieve it.
