• How do market failures provide rationales for collective interference with individual choices (public policy)? • How do government failures provide rationale and justification for public policy? • What are the foundational rationales that justify collective interference in your policy issue area of interest? • Describe the basic steps to policy analysis. Evaluate the similarities and differences between the research design process and the policy analysis process. • Describe how an outcomes matrix can help assess policy solutions. Provide example of how the outcome matrix has been used in a current, real-world ​‌‍‍‍‌‍‍‌‍‌‌‍‍‍‌‍‌‌‌‍​policy issue.