Policy analysis has all of the following purposes except:

(a) the identification of its intended targets and outcomes;
(b) means of measuring its intended and unintended consequences;
(c) recognition of how the problem it is addressing has been socially constructed;
(d) theories about the causes of the problem it is addressing.


Ans: C

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