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In this article, I identify four types of participatory policy analysis (PPA)that have been proposed to address two alleged failures o f traditional policy analysis: that it is antidemocratic and that its positivist framework creates a mistaken view of the analytic task. Then I present a case study o f one type of PPA that has received little research attention, organization-stakeholder policy analysis. I n the case, I describe how the Georgia Division of Rehabilitation Services used an 11-member policy analysis team, all employees ofthe organization, to analyze its order of selection policy and present advice to its executive committee. Following the case description, I discuss the strengths and weaknesses of this type of PPA and suggest that it should be viewed as a "method of the second type" that may be well suited for addressing some messy or illstructured policy issues.

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Several scholars have suggested that policy analysts and policy researchers can be classified as falling into one of a small number of ideal types. These ideal‐type models are based largely on analysts' views of their roles in an organization and their value orientations, including their relationships with clients, their perceptions of their responsibility to the public, and their acceptance of professional norms. To determine to what extent practicing policy analysts and researchers resemble the ideal types, we administered Q‐sorts to 38 analysts and researchers in three states. In our analysis of the Q‐sorts, we identified five types. Also, we found that the analysts and researchers hold in common many views of analytic roles and values.

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