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Systems Analysis in Public Policy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 359

Systems Analysis in Public Policy

Systems analysis, which is also called cost/benefit analysis, the planning-programming-budgeting system, risk analysis, and technology assessment, has become the major planning and policy tool of government at all levels. Indeed, it is still gathering momentum in addressing the uncertainties associated with everything from the safety of nuclear energy to the effects of microelectronics. Examining this phenomenon critically, Ida R. Hoos reviews systems analytic techniques in their own circumscribed, simulated world and in the real one, drawing on a wide range of studies in health, education, welfare, crime, and many other areas of public concern, and giving special attention to information sy...

Research in Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1224

Research in Education

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1968
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Resources in Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1752

Resources in Education

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1968
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Science of Bureaucracy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 453

The Science of Bureaucracy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-01-21
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

How the US Environmental Protection Agency designed the governance of risk and forged its legitimacy over the course of four decades. The US Environmental Protection Agency was established in 1970 to protect the public health and environment, administering and enforcing a range of statutes and programs. Over four decades, the EPA has been a risk bureaucracy, formalizing many of the methods of the scientific governance of risk, from quantitative risk assessment to risk ranking. Demortain traces the creation of these methods for the governance of risk, the controversies to which they responded, and the controversies that they aroused in turn. He discusses the professional networks in which the...

Aging and Technological Advances
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 457

Aging and Technological Advances

The chapters and reports in this publication have been selected from presentations at a Symposium on "Aging and Technological Advances" held in August, 1983 at the Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center of the University of Southern California. The Symposium was made possible by a grant from the NATO Special Programme Panel on Human Factors, and the support of this program is gratefully acknowledged. Members of the Symposium Advisory Board were James E. Birren, Judy Livingston, Erhard Olbrich, Victor Regnier, Pauline Robinson, Thomas Singleton, Arnold Small, Harvey Sterns, and Alvar Svanborg. Professor Lambros Houssiadas also provided invaluable encouragement. Appreciation is also extended to...

Monthly Labor Review
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 796

Monthly Labor Review

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1973
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.

Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Science and Astronautics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1804
1970 NASA Authorization
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1810

1970 NASA Authorization

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1969
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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1970 NASA Authorization, Hearings...
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1806

1970 NASA Authorization, Hearings...

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1969
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Hearings
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1798

Hearings

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1969
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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