Landing on your feet: organizing your policy analysis - Solution analysis
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There is a variety of sources for developing policy alternatives:
- Existing policy proposals;
- Policies implemented in other jurisdictions: once found, you can create many alternatives through the process of tinkering (decomposing an alternative into its essential components and selecting those combinations that look most promising)
- Generic policy solutions
- Custom-designed alternatives (often through backward mapping)
Some heuristics for crafting policy alternatives:
- You should not expect to find a perfect policy alternative
- Do not contrast a preferred policy with a set of 'dummy' or 'straw person' alternatives
- Don't have a favorite alternative until you have assesses all the alternatives in terms of all the goals
- Ensure that your alternatives are mutually exclusive, they are, after all, alternatives
- Somewhere between three and seven policy alternatives
- Alternatives should be consistent with available resources, including jurisdictional authority and controllable variables
- You will not be able to predict consequences unless you provide clear and detailed specifications of your alternatives
Three heuristics to help guide your presentation of recommendations:
- Your recommendations should follow from your assessment of the alternatives
- You should briefly summarize the advantages and disadvantages of the policy that you recommend
- You must provide a clear set of instructions for action
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