Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Political Feasibility Analysis	Multi-Criteria Policy Analysis
Πεδίο	Public Policy	Public Policy
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	MCDM
Έτος προέλευσης	1972	2002
Δημιουργός	Arnold J. Meltsner	Valerie Belton & Theodor Stewart (synthesis); MCDA tradition
Τύπος	Assessment of the political viability of policy options	Multi-criteria decision analysis applied to policy appraisal
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Meltsner, A. J. (1972). Political feasibility and policy analysis. Public Administration Review, 32(6), 859–867.	Belton, V., & Stewart, T. J. (2002). Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis: An Integrated Approach. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN: 9780792375050
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	Political Feasibility Assessment, Feasibility Analysis for Policy, Politics of Policy Analysis	Multi-Criteria Analysis for Policy, MCDA Policy Appraisal, MCA in Policy, Multi-Criteria Policy Appraisal
Συναφείς	4	3
Σύνοψη	Political feasibility analysis assesses whether a policy option can realistically be adopted, enacted and sustained given the political environment — the actors involved, their interests and beliefs, the resources they command, and the arenas in which they act. Arnold Meltsner's classic 1972 article 'Political Feasibility and Policy Analysis' argued that analysts who attend only to economic or technical merit and ignore politics produce recommendations that are dead on arrival. By systematically appraising the political viability of options, the method helps distinguish proposals that are merely good on paper from those that can actually survive the political process.	Multi-criteria policy analysis applies multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) to appraise and rank policy options against several, often conflicting, objectives that cannot be reduced to a single money metric. Each option is scored on a set of explicit criteria — economic, social, environmental, distributional — the criteria are weighted to reflect their relative importance, and the scores are aggregated into an overall value that ranks the options. Set out comprehensively in Belton and Stewart's 2002 textbook and operationalised for government in the UK's widely used Multi-Criteria Analysis Manual, the approach makes the trade-offs in a policy decision transparent and structured rather than implicit.