Creativity and Public Policy

Creativity and Public Policy
Author: Stuart S Nagel
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2018-01-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351763946

This title was first published in 2000: A history of the ideas behind public policy studies, which can be defined as the study of the nature, causes and effects of government decisions for dealing with social problems.

Handbook of Win-win Policy Analysis: Basic concepts of win-win analysis

Handbook of Win-win Policy Analysis: Basic concepts of win-win analysis
Author: Stuart S. Nagel
Publisher: Nova Publishers
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2001
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781560729310

This monumental handbook is dedicated to the sources of super-optimising, including: Thomas Saaty on multi-criteria decision-aiding software, Lawrence Susskind on alternative policy-dispute resolution, and Robert Reich on growth economics, which are the fields of management science, law, and social science, applied here toward building a super-optimum, win-win society.

Handbook of Public Policy Evaluation

Handbook of Public Policy Evaluation
Author: Stuart S. Nagel
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2002
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780761923749

This handbook deals with many aspects of public policy evaluation: including methods; examples; professionalism studies; perspectives; concepts; substance; theory applications; dispute resolution; interdisciplinary interaction.

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.

Public Policy Studies

Public Policy Studies
Author: Stuart S. Nagel
Publisher: Nova Publishers
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2002
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781590332931

Covers the methods, substance and process of public policy.

Developing Nations and Super-optimum Policy Analysis

Developing Nations and Super-optimum Policy Analysis
Author: Stuart S. Nagel
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1993
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

The key purpose of this book is to apply decision-aiding software and super-optimum solutions to the public policy problems of developing nations. Decision-aiding software refers to microcomputer programs that can process a set of societal goals to be achieved, public policy alternatives for achieving them, and relations between goals and alternatives. Super-optimum solutions refer to policy alternatives that enable liberals, conservatives, or other major viewpoints to exceed their initial best expectations simultaneously. This approach can be applied to policy problems that relate on a general level to technology, economics, sociology, and political science. This approach is also applicable to more specific policy problems that relate to labor-management relations, transportation, agriculture, education, employment, and defense.

An Operational Approach to Policy Analysis: The Craft

An Operational Approach to Policy Analysis: The Craft
Author: Iris Geva-May
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1461541042

The aim of An Operational Approach to Policy Analysis: The Craft is to cut through the ambiguity and contradictions inherent in policy analysis by means of an operational-prescriptive approach. Its main objective is to encapsulate the essential concepts, methods and tools of policy analysis and to provide an insight into factors acting within and around the policy analysis process. Based on the collaborative research of Iris Geva-May and Aaron Wildavsky, the first full draft of An Operational Approach to Policy Analysis: The Craft was completed just before Dr Wildavsky's untimely death. Since that time, Dr Geva-May has worked to thoroughly revise and update the manuscript. An Operational Approach to Policy Analysis: The Craft can be used by researchers in political science, or as a textbook for any course in policy analysis, policy planning and evaluation. It will serve as a valuable source for students of political science, public policy, administration and management, as well as for policy analysts, researchers and executives in both the US and abroad.

Resolving International Disputes Through Super-optimum Solutions

Resolving International Disputes Through Super-optimum Solutions
Author: Stuart S. Nagel
Publisher: Nova Publishers
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2001
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781560729440

This book concerns resolving conflicts on an international level. The author states that for the purposes of this book, the dispute would have to be at the level of a war, revolution, or other dispute that involves substantial bloodshed on one or more sides, rather than a dispute that merely involves words, economic competition, or non-violent conflict. The SOS Resolution is a special kind of Win-Win dispute resolution where one where both or all sides come out ahead of even their best initial expectations simultaneously. The steps and strategies of this resolution are fully explained.