| In a 90 minute Roundtable session, the first
rotation uses the first 45 minutes and the second rotation uses the last 45 minutes.
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| Roundtable Rotation I:
Measuring Overall Quality of Life |
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Roundtable Presentation 234 to be held in the Quartz Room Section B on Thursday, Nov 6, 9:15 AM to 10:45 AM
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Sponsored by the Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design TIG
and the International and Cross-cultural Evaluation TIG
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| Presenter(s):
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| Patricia Herman,
University of Arizona,
pherman@email.arizona.edu
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| Abstract:
Which is more valuable to society as a whole: improved education or reduced crime? Where do we best spend our limited resources: cancer cures or better housing? As a society we make these decisions every day informally through public opinion or consumer demand, or more formally through our votes and elected officials. The trade-offs implicit in these decisions are never easy to make, but they would be more tractable if a measure of the impact of each option was available in a common metric, ideally, some unit of life quality. The search for this common metric has been carried out by a number of disciplines (e.g., economics, psychology, medicine, sociology, philosophy, ethics), and a number of quality-of-life-like measures are presently in use (e.g., gross domestic product, infant mortality, quality-adjusted life-years). This roundtable will review existing quality-of-life measures, discuss the validity of each, and present next steps for an optimal measure.
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| Roundtable Rotation II:
Citizen Engagement Into Community Quality of Life Evaluation |
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Roundtable Presentation 234 to be held in the Quartz Room Section B on Thursday, Nov 6, 9:15 AM to 10:45 AM
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Sponsored by the Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design TIG
and the International and Cross-cultural Evaluation TIG
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| Presenter(s):
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| Irina Makeeva,
Inter-Regional Public Foundation,
irina@cip.nsk.su
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| Abstract:
The presentation will describe the experience of involving citizens of small municipalities into developing community quality of life indicators and evaluating the process and results of community governance. It is based on Siberian Center’s pilot project “Communities Of, By and For People” implemented in 6 pilot municipalities (small towns and rural areas) in Siberia in 2006-2008. Each community team included representatives from local government, deputies, mass media and local activists. The initiative was a joint project of the Siberian Center (Novosibirsk, Russia) and the Epstein&Fass consulting company (New York, USA) that had developed and applied the Effective Community Governance Model.
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