Microcomputers In Public Policy

Microcomputers In Public Policy
Author: Stephen R. Ruth
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2019-03-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429711891

This book presents a series of perspectives on the use of automation in the formulation and execution of public policy initiatives in developing nations. It focuses on the use of the most pervasive new automation technology in the developed world—the microcomputer.

Policy Issues In Microcomputer Applications For Developing Countries

Policy Issues In Microcomputer Applications For Developing Countries
Author: National Academy of Sciences
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2019-06-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000306690

The growth of microcomputer applications in industrialized countries is predicated on an existing base that includes the ready availability of affordable hardware and software, trained personnel, capable maintenance, efficient communication systems, and a benign environment; applications are selected and facilitated by a wide range of underlying ex

Microcomputers in Public Policy

Microcomputers in Public Policy
Author: Stephen R. Ruth
Publisher: Boulder, Colo. : Published by Westview Press for the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Total Pages: 170
Release: 1987-01-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780813371443

Microcomputers And Their Applications For Developing Countries

Microcomputers And Their Applications For Developing Countries
Author: William J. Lawless Jnr
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2019-03-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 042972179X

Microcomputers are an increasingly important tool in all aspects of development as the need to handle and assimilate vast quantities of information becomes ever more critical for both the international development community and the developing countries. In addition, the microcomputer represents the first significant technological advance that a dev

Public Policy Evaluation

Public Policy Evaluation
Author: Stuart S. Nagel
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2018-08-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0429831080

First published in 1998, this volume examines how super-optimum decisions involve finding alternatives to controversies whereby Conservatives, Liberals, or other major groups can all come out ahead of their best initial expectations simultaneously. This book is organised in terms of concepts, methods, causes, process, substance, and the policy studies profession. Concepts clarify that policy evaluation traditionally involves: (1) Goals to be achieved; (2) Alternatives available for achieving them; (3) Relations between goals and alternatives; (4) Drawing a conclusion as to the best alternative in light of the goals, alternatives, and relations; and (5) Analysing how the conclusion would change if there were changes in the goals, alternatives, or relations. Super-optimizing also involves five related steps, but with the following improvements: (1) Goals are designed as conservative, liberal, or neutral; (2) Alternatives get the same designations; (3) Relations are simplified to indicate which alternatives are relatively high or low on each goal; (4) The conclusion involves arriving at an alternative that does better on Goal A than Alternative A, and simultaneously better on Goal B than Alternative B; and (5) The fifth step involves analysing the super-optimum or win-win alternative in terms of its feasibility as to the economic, technological, psychological, political, administrative, and legal matters.

Microcomputers as Decision Aids in Law Practice

Microcomputers as Decision Aids in Law Practice
Author: Stuart S. Nagel
Publisher: Praeger
Total Pages: 392
Release: 1987-06-16
Genre: Law
ISBN:

This book demonstrates the use of the personal computer as an integral component of legal decision making. Nagel begins with an overview of the use of microcomputers as a tool in the legal decision-making process. He reviews in detail the currently available decision-aiding software. Several important areas of decision-making are covered, including predicting the outcome of future cases in light of previous relevant cases and present facts; litigation choices such as whether to go to trial or to settle; allocating attorney resources; and negotiating and mediating. The book can help one's law practice more profitable, less time-consuming, and more competitive.