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To date in this course, you have looked at four different types of criteria that stakeholders utilize in the policy development process: the reaction of elected officials and staff; the reaction of nongovernment stakeholder groups; scientist stakeholder criteria; and economic criteria. For this Assignment, you will list, describe, and analyze each of these methods showing their application and results.

Explaining each method and demonstrating its use (with examples) for analyzing types of environmental policy issues involving multiple actors and stakeholders.

You should:

Define the 4 criteria and give examples of the types of questions that can best be addressed by each criterion.

Cite specific policy examples in which appropriate use of each criterion was, or could have been, made.

Compare and contrast the strengths and weaknesses of the criteria and give your rationale for assigning the criteria's attributes as strengths or as weaknesses.

Describe the ways in which each criterion is, or is not, useful in predicting results over time and how they can be used in evaluating effects on the various stakeholders.

Identify and describe specific situations in which multiple criteria might be used together and explain the role of each criteria in those mixed-methods situations.