Starting with the Treasury's Green Book definition of the 'weighting and scoring' technique in option appraisal, the authors resolve a challenging theoretical paradox and then look at the strength of the current bridge between theory and its practical implementation. Two case studies in which...

This article critically reviews the Spottiswoode Report on quot;Improving Police Performancequot; produced for the Public Services Productivity Panel. The article questions the report's recommendations that Data Envelopment Analysis (supported by Stochastic Frontier Analysis) be used to measure...

<title/> Starting with the Treasury's Green Book definition of the ‘weighting and scoring’ technique in option appraisal, the authors resolve a challenging theoretical paradox and then look at the strength of the current bridge between theory and its practical implementation. Two case studies in...