Policy and Evidence in a Partisan Age: The Great Disconnect | Contents

1 Introduction: The Oversold Society

2 How to Tell What the Emperor Is Wearing: Standards for Evidence in Policy Debates

3 It’s Not the Economy, Stupid! Why You Shouldn’t Vote Your Wallet

4 Growth Illusions: Can We Spend or Tax Cut Our Way to Prosperity?

5 A Tale of Two Decisions: Contrasting Standards for Evidence

6 Is Education the Great Equalizer?

7 The States and Competition for Economic Development

8 What Did Your Congressman Learn in School?

9 Welfare without Illusions

10 Conclusions: Policy as Patent Medicine

Policy and Evidence in a Partisan Age: The Great Disconnect, by Paul Gary Wyckoff, will be available from the Urban Institute Press in April 2009 (ISBN 978-0-87766-749-0, paper, 160 pages, $26.50)