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Thinking Like a Policy Analyst

Policy Analysis as a Clinical Profession

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Thinking Like a Policy Analyst

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The main objective of this chapter is to highlight the intellectual processes involved in policy analysis. The chapter discusses (a) notions of professional reasoning; (b) clinical reasoning and cognitive processes in the clinical process of policy analysis; (c) theories of cognition and bounded rationality that contribute to policy analysis practice (i.e., problem solving, prediction and decision making); and (d) awareness of these issues and instructional implications for enabling a learner to successfully join the policy analysis professional community. The author proposes a pedagogy of learning through inference as it yields embodied concepts that can be reclaimed in future related diagnostic contexts.

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    Iris Geva-May (Professor of Public Policy) (Professor of Public Policy)

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Geva-May, I. (2005). Thinking Like a Policy Analyst. In: Geva-May, I. (eds) Thinking Like a Policy Analyst. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403980939_2

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