We describe an evaluation undertaken on contract for the New Zealand State Services Commission of a major project (the Administrative Decision-Making Skills Project) designed to produce a model of administrative decision making and an associated teaching/learning packagefor use by government...

The authors in this article report on and develop a methodology for producing a well-defined problem in policy analysis. The methodology, which is christened the "evaluative context, " is defined as an iterative process based on a series of checklist questions. It is given a theoretical...