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,...

Table of Contents:

• PART I
• 1.Simulation Design for Policy Audiences: Informing Decision in the Face of Uncertainty
• 2.Using Simulation as a Scenario Builder for Decision Making – A Case Study Using the Nurse-Family Partnership Program in Louisiana
• 3.The Utility of Multilevel Modeling vs. Agent-Based Modeling in Examining Spatial Disparities in Diet and Health: The Case of Food Deserts
• PART II
• 4.Urban Renaissance or Invasion: Planning the Development of a Simulation Model of Gentrification
• 5.Simulating Life Cycle Costs for Nuclear Facilities
• 6.Simulating a Fraud Mechanism in Public Service Delivery
• 7. Exploring Assumptions through Possible Worlds: The Case of Homeownership
• PART III
• 8.Simulating the Multiple Impacts of Deferred Maintenance
• 9.Pandemic Influenza Simulation with Public Avoidance Behavior
• 10.Iterative Storytelling in Public Policy: A Systems Thinking Approach Hightower.  .