Policymaking for A Good Society: The Social Fabric Matrix Approach to Policy Analysis and Program Evaluation

• Main Author: Hayden, F. Gregory (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2006.
• Subjects: Political science.; Applied ecology.; Economic history.; Economic policy.; Sociology.; Political Science and International Relations.; Political Science.; Economic Policy.; Sociology, general.; Methodology/History of Economic Thought.; Applied Ecology.

This book was written for students of policy science and analysts with policy making responsibilities who want to understand how to solve social and ecological problems with an integrated systems approach. It describes a method that gives analysts the ability to combine knowledge of social, technolo...

Table of Contents:

• Policy Paradigms should be Consistent with the Complexity of Reality
• Instrumental Philosophy and Criteria
• General Systems Principles for Policy Analysis
• Social Criteria and Socioecological Indicators
• The Social Fabric Matrix
• Illustrations of the Social Fabric Matrix
• Timeliness as the Appropriate Concept of Time
• Evaluation for Sufficiency: Combining the Social Fabric Matrix and Instrumentalism
• The Social Fabric Matrix in a Metapolicymaking Context.