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Decision-aiding software, the underpinning of computer-aided judicial analysis, can facilitate the prediction of how cases are likely to be decided, prescribe decisions that should be reached in such cases, and help administrate more efficiently the court process.

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They also investigate ways in which national or state governments can be involved as high units in decentralization processes, but show that decentralization can involve local governments, neighborhoods, businesses, or even individuals as the lower or decentral units.

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In the third part, Nagel assesses applications of decision-aiding software to all fields of law, with an emphasis on contracts, property, torts, family law, criminal law, constitutional law, economic regulation, international law, civil procedure, and criminal procedure.

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This volume is a culmination of years of development, and the first to introduce the concepts of superoptimum evaluative and explanatory reasoning. Second, by understanding the elements of explanatory reasoning, they will understand how and why decisions are reached.

Evaluative reasoning can take several forms.

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A survey of microcomputers and decision-aiding software in law practices and the legal process. The contributors deal with the practising lawyer, the legal policy maker and the legal scholar and cover the normative and predictive questions that microcomputers and software can help to answer.

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An exciting aspect of contemporary legal scholarship is a concern for law from a global perspective across all legal fields. It also refers to the basic public law fields of constitutional law, administrative law, criminal law, and international law.

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This work examines the topic of dispute resolution, specifically the multi-criteria approach that seeks to arrive at a conclusion that is mutually beneficial to both sides.

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Second, the volume proposes to evaluate the methods of policy evaluation themselves, and to assess the field as a whole.

Designed to serve as a definitive analysis of policy studies, this volume covers basic concepts, research criteria, societal goals, and policy alternatives.

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These include the definition of concepts, the establishment of criteria for judging policy studies researh, and the clarification of policy goals. Designed to serve as a definitive analysis of policy studies, this volume covers basic concepts, research criteria, societal goals, and policy altenatives.

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An innovative contribution to the literature of political science, this five-part volume explores the four basic theoretical issues in public policy analysis: conceptual theory, theory of knowing, casual theory, and normative analysis.

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This is an insightful overview of what is happening at the cutting edge of professional public policy analysis.

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This contributed volume offers a summary of the latest ideas and applications concerning decision making software, as applied to administrative decision making and public policy-making. The book is organized in terms of the major fields of public administrations.

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In this study, Chinese and Western specialists analyse the nature of public policymaking in China, specific measures and alternatives, and various methodological approaches. Topics include reform of the social security system, health care administration and environmental control.

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Introduces the basic concepts and principles of a unique and highly effective technique - super-optimizing decision making - and explains how public-sector policy makers can use it in various fields.

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Among the tools available to facilitate dispute resolution are microcomputer-based, rule-based expert systems and, for specific fields of dispute, decision-aiding software.

The editors delineate several ways in which participants in a dispute win or lose.

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Investigates the problems that public administrators are facing as they seek to find and train others for government service.