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Improving Information for Social Policy Decisions -- The Uses of Microsimulation Modeling Volume I, Review and Recommendations (1991) / Chapter Skim
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Part I Information for Social Welfare Policy: Toward a Second Revolution
Pages 29-32

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... productivity; _ J ~ v ~ ~_~ ~V^~J~^ ~v~[j—O 411 ~~ identifying a problem, such as rising health care costs or declining · putting the problem onto the political agenda, that is, making the case that action is needed and appropriate on the part of the federal government; with the problem; enact it formally into law; · implementing the program; and identifying and evaluating alternative policies and programs to deal building agreement on a program and obtaining sufficient support to evaluating the program, which often leads to identifying a new problem that may require further governmental action. Each stage of the process usually involves many actors—decision makers in the executive and legislative branches and their staffs, researchers and policy 29
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From page 30...
... For example, the Job Training Partnership Act allocates funds on the basis of a formula that uses each jurisdiction's share of the unemployed and economically disadvantaged populations, and the Medicaid program determines the federal matching percentage of state expenditures partially on the basis of measures of each state's per capita income. By policy-oriented information (which we henceforth refer to as "information" or 'policy information")
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From page 31...
... In Chapter 2 we present a brief history of the first information revolution, which concludes by calling attention to the resource constraints that limited investment in models, data, and research in the 1980s, with adverse effects on the quality and cost-effectiveness of the tools that support the policy analysis function. Policy analysis represents a link between social science research and the political process.
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