Evaluating the Research Report's "Solution"

Function of the Solutions Section

The proposed solution (ie the bill’s main provisions) should seem likely to help alter or eliminate the causes of the existing problematic behaviors, and to induce new behaviors to help resolve the social problem targeted.

Does this section of the research report adequately:

a. review the main possible alternative solutions (including doing nothing);
b. describe the drafter’s preferred solution -- that is, the bill’s main provisions designed to change the behaviors of the primary role occupant(s) and implementing agency officials;
c. show that, logically, the preferred solution – the bill’s main provisions -- will probably overcome the causes of the existing behaviors (as identified by using the ROCCIPI categories) and induce the new behaviors needed to help resolve the social problem;
d. provide the facts needed to show that the social and economic benefits of implementing the bill’s provisions will probably outweigh their social and economic costs; and
d. incorporate a feed-back mechanism to ensure that, after the law’s enactment, the relevant authorities gather the necessary evidence to ensure that it seems effectively implemented and induces the desired new behaviors; and, if it does not, to initiate new legislation, grounded in the resulting logically-organized evidence, so that in the future the law will help to resolve the social problem?