David L Weimer
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1042379 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | David L Weimer |
| NOMBRES | David L |
| APELLIDO | Weimer |
| FIRMA | WEIMER D L |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9237-623X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 85 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 489 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 85 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1980 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Letter from Former SBCA Presidents and JBCA Editors to Oira Administrator
Mapping Travel
Mapping Travel: The Origins and Conventions of Western Journey Maps." Imago Mundi, 74(2), pp. 319–320
Standing in Cost‐Benefit Analysis
Whose costs and benefits should count in cost‐benefit analysis (CBA)? This is an important practical question requiring answers for analysts because most government agencies offer only permissive or vague guidance. Drawing primarily on foundational CBA principles, we present a conceptual framework for specifying standing to answer three important boundary questions: Where? Who? What? First, a standing framework requires a definition of jurisdicti…
Efficiency without Apology
Some issues in the application of benefit–cost analysis (BCA) remain contentious. Although a strong conceptual case can be made for taking account of the marginal excess tax burden (METB) in conducting BCAs, it is usually excluded. Although a strong conceptual case can be made that BCA should not include distributional values, some analysts continue to advocate doing so. We discuss the cases for inclusion of the METB and the exclusion of distribu…
Monetizing Bowser
Households in the USA spend about $70 billion annually on pets. Dogs, the most common pet, can be found in nearly half of American households. An important shadow price in the analysis of policies affecting human mortality is the value of statistical life (VSL), which is imputed from how people make decisions involving tradeoffs between small mortality risks and other goods. The value of statistical dog life (VSDL) is also an important, but until…
Allocation of Indivisible Life-Saving Goods With Both Intrinsic and Relational Quality
Allocation of scarce heterogeneous life-saving goods confronts society with profound challenges that are analytically complex and morally laden. Deceased-donor kidneys for transplant are heterogeneous in terms of relational and intrinsic quality. In 2014, the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network implemented a new allocation system that more explicitly takes account of intrinsic quality. We trace the evolution of the new allocation system…
When Are Nudges Desirable? Benefit Validity When Preferences Are Not Consistently Revealed
Cost‐benefit analysis, as a tool of general use in policy analysis or as a mandated analytical process in some rulemaking, provides protocols for assessing the relative efficiency of policy alternatives. However, inconsistent and apparently irrational decisions by consumers in some situations call into question the validity of inferring the values that consumers place on outcomes from their observed choices. It also opens the door for “nudges” th…
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Public Administration Theory
Intellectual and practical endeavors almost always demand theory to help make sense of the complex world. Descriptive theories seek to predict what will happen, or at least understand what has happened, in particular circumstances. Normative theories seek to inform agents about what they should want or do in particular circumstances. As professionals seeking to promote good governance, public administrators must be able to predict consequences. T…
Examination of the New Short-Stay Nursing Home Quality Measures
In 2016, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced 3 new quality measures (QMs) to its report card, Nursing Home Compare (NHC). These measures-rehospitalizations, emergency department visits, and successful discharges to the community-focus on short-stay residents. We offer a first analysis of nursing homes' performance in terms of these new measures. We examined their properties and distribution across nursing homes using des…
Compared to What? The Multiple Meanings of Comparative Policy Analysis
What is comparative public policy? How can it contribute to better public policy? These questions seem fundamental to the mission of the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis. Some scholars have addressed the first question, which usually places comparative policy analysis in an institutional context, emphasizing comparisons across countries. However, fewer scholars have addressed the second, which lies at the heart of the comparative enterprise…
Policy Analysis
Often described as a public policy “bible,” Weimer and Vining remains the essential primer it ever was. Now in its sixth edition, Policy Analysis provides a strong conceptual foundation of the rationales for and the limitations to public policy. It offers practical advice about how to do policy analysis, but goes a bit deeper to demonstrate the application of advanced analytical techniques through the use of case studies. Updates to this edition …
The challenges of fractionalized property rights in public‐private hybrid organizations
Policy designers seeking to harness profit‐driven efficiency for public purposes are increasingly creating organizations with fractionalized property rights that distribute “ownership” among public and private actors. The resulting hybrids are quite diverse, including mixed enterprises, public‐private partnerships, social entrepreneurship organizations, government‐sponsored enterprises, and various other hybrid forms. Marrying public purposes to …
Policy Analysis
Cost–Benefit Analysis
Cost-Benefit Analysis provides accessible, comprehensive, authoritative, and practical treatments of the protocols for assessing the relative efficiency of public policies. Its review of essential concepts from microeconomics, and its sophisticated treatment of important topics with minimal use of mathematics helps students from a variety of backgrounds build solid conceptual foundations. It provides thorough treatments of time discounting, deali…
Policy Analysis
Updated in a new 5th edition, this book lays a strong conceptual foundation to understanding the rationales of and limitations to public policy. It gives practical advice about how to do policy analysis while demonstrating the application of advanced analytical techniques through case study examples. Policy Analysis: Concepts and Practices is a comprehensive, accessible, and rich introduction to policy analysis for readers in public policy, publi…
Public Policy Induced Changes in Employment
We explore the economic welfare effects of direct and indirect government-induced changes in employment under varying market conditions. We begin with a discussion of those policy-induced employment changes that seamlessly reshuffle workers among jobs in an efficient (i.e., full-employment, full-information) economy; generally such changes create few, if any, net changes in economic welfare not captured in changes in wage bills. We then turn to t…
Inching Toward Universal Coverage
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The longer-run performance effects of agencification
Although governments worldwide are increasingly choosing to deliver services through organisations with greater autonomy than traditional bureaus, the implicit assumption that such agencification contributes to long-run efficiency remains largely untested. Agencification gives agency managers more autonomy and access to incentive mechanisms that lead to greater efficiency if they are not offset by inefficiencies resulting from managerial discreti…
You Can't Make Me Do It
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 has been one of the most controversial laws in decades. The ACA relies extensively on the cooperation of states for its implementation, offering opportunities for both local adaptation and political roadblocks. Health insurance exchanges are one of the most important components of the ACA for achieving its goal of near‐universal coverage. Despite significant financial support from the f…
The Universal and the Particular in Policy Analysis and Training
How well do the craft skills of policy analysis travel? The basic skills of assessing problems and structuring comparisons of policy alternatives in terms of relevant goals seem universal. However, the specific political, social, and economic contexts in which analysts work help determine the set of feasible alternatives and appropriate tradeoffs among goals. Further, the consequences of analysts' responses to conflicts between analytical integri…
Scientific Expertise and the Balance of Political Interests
Federal advisory committees are commonplace in the administrative state and often play a critical informational role in policymaking. Public administration scholars have yet to explore fully the implications of the institutional design and intra-committee dynamics that influence the advice produced by advisory committees. Using the Medicare Evidence Development and Coverage Advisory Committee (MEDCAC) as a case, we provide a much needed empirical…
Does State Regulation of Quality Impose Costs on Nursing Homes
BACKGROUND: Government regulation is intended to enhance quality, safety, fairness, or competition in the regulated industry. Such regulation entails both direct and indirect costs. OBJECTIVES: To estimate the costs associated with the regulation of quality of the nursing home industry. SAMPLE: This study includes 11,168 free-standing nursing homes nationally, between 2004 and 2006. RESEARCH DESIGN: Data included information from the Medicare cos…
Federal Advisory Committees, Policy Expertise, and the Approval of Drugs and Medical Devices at the FDA
Policy makers in the US federal government regularly consult advisory committees, but there is little systematic research on how committee advice influences executive branch policy making. We investigate the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) use of advisory committees when deciding whether or not to approve pharmaceutical drugs and medical devices for marketing. Specifically, using 1997–2006 drug and device approval data, we estimate the influ…
The Political Economy of Property Rights
Policy Analysis
Updated in a new 5th edition, this book lays a strong conceptual foundation to understanding the rationales of and limitations to public policy. It gives practical advice about how to do policy analysis while demonstrating the application of advanced analytical techniques through case study examples. Policy Analysis: Concepts and Practices is a comprehensive, accessible, and rich introduction to policy analysis for readers in public policy, publi…
The Advent of Internet Surveys for Political Research
The Internet offers a number of advantages as a survey mode: low marginal cost per completed response, capabilities for providing respondents with large quantities of information, speed, and elimination of interviewer bias. Those seeking these advantages confront the problem of representativeness both in terms of coverage of the population and capabilities for drawing random samples. Two major strategies have been pursued commercially to develop …
Government Supply and Government Production Failure
A complete conceptual framework for policy analysis requires a theory of government supply and government production failure to complement the well-developed theory of market failure provided by welfare economics. Charles Wolf has made an important start by attempting to draw parallels between market failures and the manifestations of government supply failures. This article provides a more useful analytical framework for government supply failur…
Just give me a number!” Practical values for the social discount rate
A major reason the quality of cost‐benefit analysis (CBA) varies widely is inconsistent use of the social discount rate (SDR). This article offers guidance about the choice of the SDR. Namely, we recommend the following procedures: If the project is intragenerational (does not have effects beyond 50 years) and there is no crowding out of private investment, then discount all flows at 3.5 percent; if the project is intragenerational and there is s…
Federal Advisory Committees, Policy Expertise, and the Approval of Drugs and Medical Devices at the FDA
Policy makers in the US federal government regularly consult advisory committees, but there is little systematic research on how committee advice influences executive branch policy making. We investigate the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) use of advisory committees when deciding whether or not to approve pharmaceutical drugs and medical devices for marketing. Specifically, using 1997–2006 drug and device approval data, we estimate the influ…
Policy Analysis and Evidence
Both rational empiricist methods and discursive approaches associated with post positivism can inform usefully the craft of policy analysis. Systematically comparing policy alternatives in terms of relevant policy goals is a fundamentally important element of cr. Selecting relevant goals for policy open can be informed usefully by discourse with stakeholders. Formulating policy alternatives often can benefit from a catholic approach that includes…
Integrating Delegation into the Policy Theory Literature
Public policy scholars have developed a number of theories of the policymaking process. Their work has come to define what some now refer to as the “policy theory” literature. Our task is to identify theoretical and empirical courses of study that will advance this research program. We limit ourselves to identifying an existing theory that already provides such an advance and discuss some of its theoretical benefits and empirical support. Specifi…
Institutionalizing Neutrally Competent Policy Analysis
Creating institutions that foster the production of objective and balanced policy analysis is a challenging task for all types of regimes. The value of neutral competence often suffers in tradeoffs with the value of responsiveness, especially in the exercise of executive authority. Institutional designers, however, are not without resources for structuring arrangements to promote the production of objective and balanced policy analysis: organizat…
The longer-run performance effects of agencification
Although governments worldwide are increasingly choosing to deliver services through organisations with greater autonomy than traditional bureaus, the implicit assumption that such agencification contributes to long-run efficiency remains largely untested. Agencification gives agency managers more autonomy and access to incentive mechanisms that lead to greater efficiency if they are not offset by inefficiencies resulting from managerial discreti…
Theories of and in the Policy Process
Like public administration before it, public policy has an uneasy place in the discipline of political science. The stress is most obvious in the distinction between theories that attempt to explain the policy process and theories that are useful to those who seek to operate within the policy process. Accommodating this stress within the disciplinary boundaries of political science poses a difficult challenge
Nursing Homes' Response to the Nursing Home Compare Report Card
These findings suggest that the Nursing Home Compare report card has the potential to positively affect nursing home quality
Information asymmetry favoring sellers
The challenges of fractionalized property rights in public‐private hybrid organizations
Policy designers seeking to harness profit‐driven efficiency for public purposes are increasingly creating organizations with fractionalized property rights that distribute “ownership” among public and private actors. The resulting hybrids are quite diverse, including mixed enterprises, public‐private partnerships, social entrepreneurship organizations, government‐sponsored enterprises, and various other hybrid forms. Marrying public purposes to …
Application of Theil group logit methods to district-level vote shares
Introducing policy analysis craft
Scientific Expertise and the Balance of Political Interests
Federal advisory committees are commonplace in the administrative state and often play a critical informational role in policymaking. Public administration scholars have yet to explore fully the implications of the institutional design and intra-committee dynamics that influence the advice produced by advisory committees. Using the Medicare Evidence Development and Coverage Advisory Committee (MEDCAC) as a case, we provide a much needed empirical…
Public Policy Induced Changes in Employment
We explore the economic welfare effects of direct and indirect government-induced changes in employment under varying market conditions. We begin with a discussion of those policy-induced employment changes that seamlessly reshuffle workers among jobs in an efficient (i.e., full-employment, full-information) economy; generally such changes create few, if any, net changes in economic welfare not captured in changes in wage bills. We then turn to t…
Stakeholder governance of organ transplantation
Medical governance should secure and apply appropriate expertise, accommodate stakeholder interests, and promote social values. The most common form of governance, public (agency) rulemaking by government agencies, usually involves supplementing in-house expertise through advisory committees. An alternative, private (stakeholder) rulemaking, involves delegating the authority for developing rules directly to stakeholders, who often command relevan…
The performance of charter schools in Wisconsin
How have charter schools in Wisconsin performed relative to traditional public schools? Two analyses provide an answer: First, a comparison of achievement test scores for students in Milwaukee charter and traditional schools from 1998 to 2002 for grades 3 through 10 finds a relative advantage for charter school students using fixed effects and first difference specifications. Second, a methodological approach new to the debate over performance in…
The Universal and the Particular in Policy Analysis and Training
How well do the craft skills of policy analysis travel? The basic skills of assessing problems and structuring comparisons of policy alternatives in terms of relevant goals seem universal. However, the specific political, social, and economic contexts in which analysts work help determine the set of feasible alternatives and appropriate tradeoffs among goals. Further, the consequences of analysts' responses to conflicts between analytical integri…
Standing in Cost‐Benefit Analysis
Whose costs and benefits should count in cost‐benefit analysis (CBA)? This is an important practical question requiring answers for analysts because most government agencies offer only permissive or vague guidance. Drawing primarily on foundational CBA principles, we present a conceptual framework for specifying standing to answer three important boundary questions: Where? Who? What? First, a standing framework requires a definition of jurisdicti…
Compared to What? The Multiple Meanings of Comparative Policy Analysis
What is comparative public policy? How can it contribute to better public policy? These questions seem fundamental to the mission of the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis. Some scholars have addressed the first question, which usually places comparative policy analysis in an institutional context, emphasizing comparisons across countries. However, fewer scholars have addressed the second, which lies at the heart of the comparative enterprise…
Inching Toward Universal Coverage
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
An Assessment of Important Issues Concerning the Application of Benefit-Cost Analysis to Social Policy
Benefit-cost analysis (BCA) provides a framework for systematically assessing the efficiency of public policies. Increasingly, BCA is being applied to social policies, ranging from preschool interventions to prison reentry programs. These applications offer great potential for helping to identify policies that offer the best returns on public investments aimed at helping the disadvantaged or otherwise improving social life. However, applying BCA …
Aboriginal Performance on Standardized Tests
Many indigenous populations are experiencing rural‐to‐urban migration. In making this transition, indigenous peoples are entering industrial societies where most income derives from wages or salaries, and formal educational achievement is crucial in determining economic prospects. This research analyzes the gap in test score results between Aboriginal and non‐Aboriginal students in public schools in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It f…
Vertical prosecution and career criminal bureaus
CMIS Implementation
In recent years, students of the policy sciences have repeatedly drawn attention to the importance of trying to anticipate implementation problems before programs are launched on a large scale.' Not surprisingly, little has been offered in the way of general models that provide new methodologies for those conducting implementation analysis.2 We should not expect powerful general theories about a process that is so highly dependent upon the comple…
A Note on America's “Cloacal” Jails
A large literature points to the abominable condition of American jails. Comparison of national surveys of jail conditions conducted in 1972 and 1978 indicates that what little improvement has occurred is minimal compared to remaining problems. A number of factors have prevented state‐set standards from achieving widespread improvement in local jail conditions: high costs, local autonomy and lack of credible threats for forcing compliance. The fa…
Improving Prosecution? The Inducement and Implementation of Innovations for Prosecution Management
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Problems of Expedited Implementation
At each stage of program implementation – strategic planning, systems design, development of the management control infrastructure, and project execution – different types of expertise are most critical to success. The civil service system, which is oriented toward the hiring of permanent employees, and personnel ceilings, which are often arbitrarily set in the budgeting process, interact to impede the transition from one implementation stage to …
Rescuing policy analysis from the civil service
Oil Price Shocks, Market Response, and Contingency Planning
Rescuing Policy Analysis from the Civil Service
Analysis as Retrograde Action
The view of public policy analysis has been widely criticized as empirically inaccurate and institutionally unworkable.' That view holds that policy analysis precedes political decision and that it can and should provide socially-rational advice, remaining above the particularistic rationality of politics.2 Some criticism has gone beyond debunking the rational-instrumental myth in attempts to map the features of analysis in the policy-making proc…
Collective Delusion in the Social Sciences
The implications o f the editorial bias of academic journals for the selection of articles with apparently statistically significant findings are widely recognized but largely ignored. Few worry about the incentives the publishing bias presents to researchers for empirical abuse that brings into question the basis of social science knowledge. One possible solution, desirable but probably impractical, is to review articles with statistical results…
JPAM's fifth year
JPAM's sixth year
Jpam's seventh year
Information asymmetry favoring sellers
JPAM welcomes new editor
Word from the front
An Earmarked Fossil Fuels Tax to Save the Rain Forests
In recent years the public, policy analysts, and politicians have shown increasing interest in two related environmental problems of global concern: climate change caused by the and deforestation of the tropics. Many scientists believe that the increasing concentration of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere may be trapping solar energy, just as glass traps it in a greenhouse, to alter global climate patterns [MacDonald, 1988].1 Becau…
Policy Analysis
Government Supply and Government Production Failure
A complete conceptual framework for policy analysis requires a theory of government supply and government production failure to complement the well-developed theory of market failure provided by welfare economics. Charles Wolf has made an important start by attempting to draw parallels between market failures and the manifestations of government supply failures. This article provides a more useful analytical framework for government supply failur…
Rules for Rulers
The Development of American Public Policy
Policy Analysis and Economics
Political Science, Practitioner Skill, and Public Management
Policy Analysis and Economics
Contributing Authors.- Preface.- 1 Economists as Policy Analysts: Historical Overview.- 2 Continuing Controversies in Policy Analysis.- 3 Beyond Efficiency: Economics and Distributional Analysis.- 4 Beyond Self-Interest.- 5 Economic Theories of Decision Making Under Uncertainty: Implications for Policy Analysis.- 6 The New Institutional Economics: Implications for Policy Analysis.- 7 Macroeconomics and Macroeconomists as Instruments of Policy.- 8…
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