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Policymaking for a Good Society

The Social Fabric Matrix Approach to Policy Analysis and Program Evaluation

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  • © 2006

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Authors:
  1. F. Gregory Hayden

    1. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

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  • First book to utilize framework recommended by institutional economists
  • Approaches public policy analysis by integrating social science ideas about beliefs and values with hard scientific knowledge
  • Teaches Social Fabric Matrix (SFM) approach, which integrates context, criteria, and consequences
  • Unlike most competitors, this book teaches how to complete relevant analysis
  • Builds on "Instrumental" approach (pioneered by Oliver Wendell Holmes, William James, Charles S. Pierce, and John Dewey) that was basis of Louis Menand's recent best seller "The Metaphysical Club"
  • International case studies
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    Pages 1-11

  3. Policy Paradigms should be Consistent with the Complexity of Reality

    Pages 12-20

  4. Instrumental Philosophy and Criteria

    Pages 21-50

  5. General Systems Principles for Policy Analysis

    Pages 51-60

  6. Social Criteria and Socioecological Indicators

    Pages 61-71

  7. The Social Fabric Matrix

    Pages 73-108

  8. Illustrations of the Social Fabric Matrix

    Pages 109-143

  9. Timeliness as the Appropriate Concept of Time

    Pages 145-185

  10. Evaluation for Sufficiency: Combining the Social Fabric Matrix and Instrumentalism

    Pages 187-197

  11. The Social Fabric Matrix in a Metapolicymaking Context

    Pages 199-227

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 229-251
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Society, ecological systems, and technological combinations are sets of ongoing processes that are organized as integrated systems and networks. Consequently, real-world problems—whether labeled social, economic, environmental, or technical—are a result of the ongoing processes that organize and coordinate integrated parts to make undesirable deliveries to each other. Furthermore, the processes are guided by numerous policies and concomitant rules, regulations, requirements, and enforced behavioral patterns. Therefore, there is no reason to expect processes to change or problems to be solved without policy changes. The processes are ongoing, so changes in undesirable deliveries are dependent on changes in policies. One premise of this book is that too often policy analysis is conducted with knowledge bases and tools that are not appropriate for the task of analyzing and understanding complex socioecological and sociotechnical systems leading to wasted resources, policy failure, and frustration. The conjunction of the complexity of problem contexts and inappropriate policymaking that follows from insufficient analysis has left citizens frustrated and bewildered. Citizens want problems solved, yet they have lost faith in the ability of policymakers to implement solutions necessary to achieve a good society. Another premise is that it is not necessary to continue down that destructive path. In response, the purpose of this book, briefly stated, is to explain how to model, analyze, and make policy for the social fabric in which society's problems are enmeshed.

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  • University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

    F. Gregory Hayden

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