In formulating a public policy, judgment analysis enables policy makers to assess and accommodate the relative importance of differing viewpoints and concerns of competing actors as an analytic decision aid. Among the important constraints that prevent judgment analysis from being widely applied to the policy formulation process is a methodological limitation inherent in judgment analysis: It requires too many scenarios to be judged in a single judgment task. Addressing this issue, this dissertation implemented two efficient design concepts - efficient plausible design and augmented...
In formulating a public policy, judgment analysis enables policy makers to assess and accommodate the relative importance of differing viewpoints and ...