ABSTRACT
Public administrators often do policy analysis. Elected executives and legislators sometimes call upon administrators who head agencies to offer advice about policies related to the programs they administer. Administrators at all levels routinely confront problems within their agencies that bring into question existing organizational policies and suggest the desirability of considering alternatives. Sometimes administrators in these situations act as consumers of advice offered by specialists in policy analysis; at other times, they produce analysis themselves. In either case, they can be more effective with a better understanding of the craft of policy analysis, especially that related to the design of policy alternatives.
