Eightfold Path
- Define the Problem
- Assemble Some Evidence
- Construct the Alternatives
- Select the Criteria
- Project the Outcomes
- Confront the Trade-Offs
- Stop, Focus, Narrow, Deepen, Decide!
- Tell Your Story
Get the cuantitative and cualitative data
Go whith the target population gatter mote info and suitch it into evidence and demonstrate it is a public problem
Ideas on how to solve a public problem, con 5 alternativas de solucion.
Crear tu Matrix of alternatives y decidir cual es la alternativa que es mas factible.
Decidir de acuerdo con la naturaleza del problema cual es la mejor alternativa.
Empezar a visualizar el resultado futuro
Evaluar los costos beneficios.
Para, enfócate, reduce, profundiza, decide. ¿Si es tan buena idea por que nadie lo ha hecho antes?
Contar tu historia
- Evidence-gathering activity.
- Include a quantitative feature.
- Diagnose Conditions That Cause Problems
• Hustling data that can be turned into evidence -> takes much more time.
• Time pressure.
• Think before you collect.
• Review Available literature.
• “Policy options,” or “alternative courses of action,” or “alternative strategies of intervention to solve or mitigate the problem.”
• Start Comprehensive, End Up Focused
• Hit the target! Efficiency Equality, equity, fairness, justice
• Legality
• Political acceptability
• Administrative robustness and improvability.
• For each of the alternatives on your current list, project all the outcomes (or impacts) that you or other interested parties might reasonably care about.
• Confront the Optimism Problem
• Construct an Outcomes Matrix
• One of the policy alternatives under consideration is expected to produce a better outcome than any of the other alternatives with regard to every single evaluative criterion.
• Unless you can convince yourself of the plausibility of some course of action, you probably won’t be able to convince your client.
• Apply the Twenty-Dollar-Bill Test
• Get ready to tell your story to some audience.
• Apply the Grandma Bessie Test
• Give Your Story a Logical Narrative Flow
• Consider What Medium to Use
Some Common Pitfalls
• Following the Eightfold Path too closely.
• Compulsive qualifying.
• Showing off all your work.
• Listing without explaining.
• Spinning a mystery yarn.
• Inflating the style.
• Forgetting that analysis doesn’t persuade—analysts do.