SENSE4US Policy Modelling and Simulation Tool : Evaluation Use Case: Finland’s 2015 Asylum Seekers Crisis

• A key challenge for policy planning and risk assessment in governmental institutions is to ensure that relevant information, expertise and knowledge are fully integrated and taken into account during the policy process. A systems thinking approach can help gathering and organizing the necessary policy intelligence and involving a diverse range of stakeholders. This study is done as part of a design-science research (DSR) project to build and evaluate a new systems tool for structuring of public policy problems and the design of policy options to be used by policy makers, analysts and researchers in governmental institutions and parliaments. The study aims at evaluation of the tool to establish its utility and efficacy for achieving its stated purpose and assess the end-user benefits. That is performed through application of the tool to analysis of a real public policy problem, Finnish government’s action in response to the rapidly growing numbers of asylum seekers entering Finland in recent years. The resulting simulation model allows designing a pathway for immigration policy that aims to mitigate the resulting problems.

Ämnesord

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Datavetenskap (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Computer Sciences (hsv//eng)

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Statsvetenskap -- Studier av offentlig förvaltning (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Political Science -- Public Administration Studies (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Systems Thinking

Prescriptive Policy Analysis

Policy modelling and Simulation

Sense4us

Impact Assessment

Scenario Planning

Immigration

Finland

data- och systemvetenskap

Computer and Systems Sciences

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