Nonmonetary benefits in benefit-cost evaluation can be dealt with by converting the choices into questions regarding whether a given nonmonetary return is worth more or less than a given dollar cost. Answering such questions enables one to pick the alternative that is best on benefits minus...

This article analyzes a type of microcomputer program that can process a set of (1) prior cases or incidents, (2) predictive criteria for separating the cases into winners and losers, or two or more other categories, and (3) relations between each prior case and criterion in order to arrive at a...

There is a need for more use of introspection, deduction, and guesswork in policy/pro gram evaluation to supplement the possible overemphasis on statistical/behavioral analysis. Introspective interviewing of knowledgeable insiders can often determine the magnitude of relations more meaningfully...

In order to evaluate multiple alternatives such as cities across multiple criteria such as climate and housing, one needs to be sensitive to the importance of working with a common measurement unit that does not lose important information. One also needs to consider diminishing returns, since...

This directory summarizes the responses of 13 nations to questions about the state ot policy studies research and teaching in those nations. While policy studies is not an exclusively American development, not many countries are as involved in this area as American scholars and universities....

Super-optimum solutions to public policy problems are ones that enable conservatives, liberals, and other major viewpoints all to come out ahead of their best initial expectations simultaneously. Thinking in terms of multiple goals and alternatives facilitates the development of mutually...