ABSTRACT
It seems that a consensus has developed among scholars of public policy that not enough research has been conducted on policy analysis at the sub-national level. Despite the slow pace of development, international scholarship on policy analysis in state and provincial governments has already accomplished a great deal. Current conceptions of policy analysis in government see this activity as one of data gathering, knowledge creation, and communication of processed information in the form of advice. The vast majority of inquiry into policy analysis concerns the national level of government, but sub-national government forms an interesting special case of governance that merits much more attention than it has received to date. In some jurisdictions, most of the human-resource information on public servants engaged in policy analysis has been gathered by their unions for purposes of collective bargaining, not by public service commissions, so detailed information may not even be available.
