Purpose – The aim of this paper is to review the use of scenario‐building at the central government level in New …/methodology/approach – The paper briefly surveys New Zealand's history of prospective government before examining scenario construction during …. Findings – Scenario‐building in a national government context has pitfalls and limitations, namely that the technique is too …

Purpose – Policy implementation strategies (PIS) are schemes designed by a government with an aim of hitting targets or … attaining objectives set out by a policy. Forecasting by analogies (FBA) has been shown to be successful in situations of high …, and expertise. It was concluded that the structured analogies approach for forecasting PIS effectiveness must be …

specific Minister for Innovation and the Dutch government should support the entire innovation process and not just the …

In this chapter, Peter Dungan investigates the sensitivity of Canadian government fiscal balances to alternative long …

participation rate is not low compared with other government transfer programs; it is about the same as New York City's welfare and … food stamp programs, for example. The model provides valuable insights into the dynamics of government transfer programs …

-intensive evaluative techniques such as Impact Assessment and Cost-Benefit Analysis. In this study, a Structured Analogies forecasting …