Books reviewed: Tobias Debiel and Axel Klein, Fragile Peace: State Failure, Violence and Development in Crisis Regions Peter Larmour and Nick Wolanin, Corruption and Anti-Corruption Mark Bovens, Paul T. Hart and B. Guy Peters, Success and Failure in Public Governance: A Comparative 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...

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:...

Policy scientists have long been concerned with understanding the basic tools, or instruments, that governments can use to accomplish their goals. The initial interest in inductively developing comprehensive lists of generic instruments for policy analysis soon gave way to efforts to discover...

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...