Background
MacRae, Duncan was born on September 30, 1921 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, United States. Son of Duncan and Rebecca Kyle (MacRae).
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This volume discusses teacher training, pay and incentives, equity and diversity among the student population, and the use of indicators to assess educational progress and to inform decision making. Chapters in each section emphasize policies that schools should adopt to address the respective issues.
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Duncan MacRae analyzes the ways in which experts can aid a political community in choosing public statistics for citizens to use in making policy judgments. In contrast to the study of social indicators, which has emphasized descriptions and models of social change, he stresses that the relevant measures should be selected in view of their potential applications. The usefulness of a public statistical series depends on the goals it represents and on our knowledge of how to act collectively to achieve those ends. The measures chosen, MacRae notes, can include gauges of social objectives, such as health and education improvements or crime reduction, and administrative inputs that promote them. He recommends, however, that the measures should be organized around general ends such as net economic benefit, subjective well-being, and equity. Knowledge about how to further collective aims, MacRae contends, requires strenthening of "technical communities" of researchers who study the means to the ends that policy indicators measure. Policy Indicators provides a critical review of the field of social indicators, stressing the uses of statistics in policy debate. For applied social scientists and policy analysts, it presents broad proposals for the roles of their fields in a democracy. Originally published in 1985. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
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Economic reasoning has thus far dominated the field of public policy analysis. This new introduction to the field posits that policy analysis should have both a broader interdisciplinary base―including criteria from such fields as political science, sociology, law, and philosophy, as well as economics―and also a broader audience in order to foster democratic debate. To achieve these goals, MacRae and Whittington have organized their textbook around the construction of decision matrices using multiple criteria, exploring the uses of the decision matrix formulation more fully than other texts. They describe how to set up the matrix, fill in cells and combine criteria, and use it as an aid for decision making. They show how ethical assessment of the affects that alternatives have on various parties differs from political analysis, and then they extend the use of the decision matrix to consider alternatives by affected parties, periods of time, or combined factors. The authors also thoughtfully address the role of expert advice in the policy process, widening the scope of the field to describe a complex system for the creation and use of knowledge in a democracy. An extended case study of HIV/AIDS policy follows each chapter (in installments), immediately illustrating the application of the material. The book also contains a glossary. Expert Advice for Policy Choice provides a new basis for graduate education in public policy analysis and can also serve as a text in planning, evaluation research, or public administration. In addition, it will be of interest to students and professionals wishing to aid policy choice who work in such fields as sociology, political science, psychology, public health, and social work.
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MacRae, Duncan was born on September 30, 1921 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, United States. Son of Duncan and Rebecca Kyle (MacRae).
Bachelor of Arts, Johns Hopkins University, 1942; A.M., Harvard University, 1943; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1950.
Member staff, Radiation Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1943-1946; instructor, then lecturer sociology, Princeton, 1949-1951; research associate, Laboratory Social Rels., Harvard University, 1951-1953; assistant professor sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 1953-1957; member of faculty, University of Chicago, 1957-1972; professor political science and sociology, University of Chicago, 1964-1972; William Rand Kenan, Junior professor political science and sociology, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, since 1972; chairman curriculum in public policy analysis, U. North Carolina, 1980-1985. President Policy Studies Association, 1974-1975.
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Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member American Political Science Association, American Sociological Association, American Economics Association, Association Public Policy and Management, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Edith Judith Krugelis, June 24, 1950 (deceased October 1995). 1 child, Amy Frances. Married Jane Stiles Sharp, May 17, 1997.