A simple declarative model of the Federal Disaster Assistance Policy -- modelling and measuring transparency

TL;DR

This paper introduces a quantitative model to analyze transparency in the Federal Disaster Assistance policy from multiple stakeholder perspectives, offering a novel methodology applicable to various sectors.

Contribution

It presents a new quantitative approach to measure process transparency and evaluates policy modifications based on stakeholder satisfaction, ranking policies accordingly.

Findings

Stakeholder satisfaction varies with policy modifications.

The methodology ranks policies based on collective stakeholder preferences.

The approach is applicable beyond disaster assistance, such as in healthcare and business.

Abstract

In this paper we will provide a quantitative analysis of a simple model of the Federal Disaster Assistance policy from the viewpoint of three different stakeholders. This quantitative methodology is new and has applications to other areas such as business and healthcare processes. The stakeholders are interested in process transparency but each has a different opinion on precisely what constitutes transparency. We will also consider three modifications to the Federal Disaster Assistance policy and analyse, from a stakeholder viewpoint, how stakeholder satisfaction changes from process to process. This analysis is used to rank the favourability of four policies with respect to all collective stakeholder preferences.