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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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An authoritative collection of 14 pieces growing out of a Brookings Institution-ABA conference in 1992. Contributors thoroughly examine the civil jury, from its history, through its roles, its shortcomings, its continued vitality, and the many suggested changes that will strengthen it as a democratic institution. The study not only takes a penetrating look at the jury; it goes inside the jury to the decision-making process through the use of sophisticated social science data. The civil jury has been under sustained attack from critics; this study fairly evaluates the criticisms and concludes that the civil jury should be improved and retained. Contains an invaluable bibliography on the jury, consisting of some 112 pages of documentation. Well organized, clearly and evenly written. Good index. Highly recommended for public, college, university, and law libraries. L. E. Noble Jr. emeritus, Clark Atlanta University

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Alice M. Rivlin was born Georgianna Alice Mitchell in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on March 4, 1931. She received a bachelor's degree from Bryn Mawr College and completed graduate work at Harvard University. She was an economist who spent much of her career bouncing back and forth between The Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank, and top government posts including vice chairwoman of the Federal Reserve Board. She was the founding director of the Congressional Budget Office and ran the District of Columbia's Financial Management Assistance Authority. She also wrote editorials for The Washington Post in the 1970s and wrote a regular column for The Los Angeles Times. Her book, Reviving the American Dream: The Economy, the States and the Federal Government, was published in 1992. She died on May 14, 2019 at the age of 88.

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