How can we identify who benefits from government programs aimed at
solving our social problem and who pays for them? With so many
problems, how can we allocate scarce funds to promote the maximum
well-being of our citizens?In this book, originally presented as
the third series of H. Rowan Gaither Lectures in Systems Science at
the University of California (Berkeley). Alice M. Rivlin examines
the contributions that systematic analysis has made to
decisionmaking in the government's ""social action"" programs
education, health, manpower training, and income maintenance.
Drawing on her own experience in government, Mrs. Rivlin indicates
where the analysts have been helpful in finding solutions and where
because of inadequate data or methods they have been no help at
all. Mrs. Rivlin concludes by urging the widespread implementation
of social experimentation and acceptability by the federal
government. The first in such a way as to permit valid conclusions
about their effectiveness; the second would encourage the adoption
of better ways of delivering services by making those who
administer programs responsive to their clients. Underlying both is
the requirement from comprehensive, reliable performance measures.
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