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A Policy Sciences View on Policy Analysis

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Public Policy Analysis

Part of the book series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science ((ISOR,volume 179))

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Let's pretend there's a way of getting through into it, somehow, Kitty. Let’s pretend the glass has got all soft like gauze, so that we can get through. Why, it’s turning into a sort of mist now, I declare! It’ll be easy enough to get through… In another moment Alice was through the glass, and had jumped lightly down into the Looking-glass room. The very first thing she did was to look whether there was a fire in the fireplace, and she was quite pleased to find that there was a real one, blazing away as brightly as the one she had left behind.

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    Throughout the book, to make functional use of gender, the policy analyst is referred to as “she”, all other actors as “he”.

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Enserink, B., Koppenjan, J.F.M., Mayer, I.S. (2013). A Policy Sciences View on Policy Analysis. In: Thissen, W., Walker, W. (eds) Public Policy Analysis. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 179. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4602-6_2

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