New improved policy analysis tends to use methods which emphasize: multiple goals, multiple alternative, allowance for missing information, use of multi-criteria decision-making and spreadsheet-based decision aiding software, concern for the practical aspects of getting the policy adopted and successfully implemented, and thinking in terms of super-optimun solutions. Those ideas are illustrated in this paper by the examples of population control in Mainland China, land reform in the Philippines. and privatization in Russia.The most useful discussion in the paper may relate to the framework for analyzing policy studies institutions and activities. The activities relate to training, research, funding, publishing, and associations. The key institutions that are responsible for the smooth functioning of those policy studies activities are universities, government agencies, and independent or private sector insitutions. The general trends are toward a superoptimum synthesis of those three kinds of institutions whereby conservatives, liberals, and other major viewpoints can all come out ahead of their best expectations simultaneously.