Social Multi-Criteria Evaluation of Policy Options

Newsletter featuring SOCRATES

In order to address contemporary issues economics and decision sciences need to expand their empirical relevance by introducing more and more realistic (thus more complex) assumptions...

SOCRATES (SOcial multi-CRiteria AssessmenT of European policieS) is a software tool explicitly designed for impact assessment problems. Three main components constitute the core of SOCRATES: multi-criteria...

One of the main novelties of this book is in the establishment of a clear relationship between social and public choice on one hand, and multiple criteria decision analysis on the other one. This relationship...

When a public administration wishes to implement policies, there is a previous need of comparing different options to assess their social attractiveness. A fair policy assessment process...

European Commission‘s current practice of Impact Assessment (IA) considers three main objectives i.e. efficiency, effectiveness (including proportionality) and coherence and it is based on the assessment...

Fairness in the policy process can be seen as an ethical obligation to take a plurality of social values, perspectives and interests into account. This means that fairness is very much linked...