summary of Policy Analysts Article

1. Nada A Alsubki
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Policy Analysts: A New Professional Role in
Government Service
Yehezkel Dror

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Nada A Alsubki
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Out Line
• What is Systems analysis?
• Systems Analysis and Decision-Making.
• From Systems Analysis to Policy Analysis.
• Policy Analysts : A New Professional Role in Government service.

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Nada A Alsubki
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What is System Analysis?
• Systems analysis is an approach intended to develop and implement the best possible system configuration.
• It Is based on an economic approach to public decision-making.
• The roots of this approach are:
 economic theory.
 quantitative decision theory.
• The main tools of this approach are:
 operations research.
 cost-effectiveness.
 cost-benefit analysis.
 program budgeting and systems analysis .

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Nada A Alsubki
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System Analysts
• The new professionals of system analysis .
• Together with the roots and tools of system analysis they form the main
components of the Planning-Programming Budgeting System (PPBS).
• Planning-Programming Budgeting System (PPBS) is the main
contemporary reform movement in the Federal administration of the
USA government.

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Nada A Alsubki
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System Analysis and Decision Making
• Systems analysis has weaknesses in the fact that it cannot deal with
issues related to the qualitative.
• The main question is how to reap the full benefits of the economic
approach and to improve public decision-making and policymaking.

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Nada A Alsubki
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From Systems Analysis to Policy Analysis
• If systems analysis in its present form is applied to complex
political issues, it cannot provide the hoped-for benefits; indeed,
a boomerang effect may follow which will inhibit necessary
innovations in the future. Instead, a new professional study of
policy analysis should be developed.
• What is needed is a more advanced type of professional knowledge,
which can bring significant benefits to the improvement of public
decision-making.

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Nada A Alsubki
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• What is needed is a new interdisciplinary subject , an integration between
the disciplines of political science and public administration with systems
analysis, decision theory, and economic theory. This combination should be
in the form of a compound rather than a mix.
• Policy analysis should combine the present methods of systems
analysis with qualitative methods and a full awareness of the special
characteristics of political phenomena.

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Nada A Alsubki
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Policy Analysts : A New Professional Role in Government
Service.
• Policy analysis is a discipline which should play a new professional
role in government, operating within all principle administrative
agencies which contribute to aggregate policy-making without pre-
empting in any way the functions of politicians and line executives.