Simulation for Policy Inquiry

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Desai, Anand (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Subjects: Political science.; Statistics.; Political Science and International Relations.; Political Science.; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law.

Public policy and management problems have been described as poorly defined, messy, squishy, unstructured, intractable, and wicked. In a word, they are complex. This book illustrates the development and use of simulation models designed to capture some of the complexity inherent in the formulation,...