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PAD 5384 lecture six Page 1 of 10 Master of public administration program PAD 5384 Civic groups & public policy Summer 2014 Policy formulation and evaluation Policy formulator of the week Photo credit Christina Romer Economic forecaster * Lecture goals: Introduce a range of issues surrounding the analysis of public policies, emphasizing especially how difficult this can be when civic groups get involved! * The tobacco settlement is, for me, perhaps the paradigmatic example of irrational, even obscenely irrational public policy. My take on it goes something like this: Tobacco is, literally, more American than apple pie, having been introduced to the world by indigenous Americans. Oddly, it turns out that if you inhale the smoke from burning vegetation, it is bad for your lungs.

PAD 5384 lecture six Page 1 of 10 Master of public administration program PAD 5384 Civic groups & public policy Summer 2014 Policy formulation and evaluation

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