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Pilot Study as a Case of Applying an Experimental Approach to the Implementation of Tasks in the Public Sector

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Experimental and Quantitative Methods in Contemporary Economics (CMEE 2018)

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Experiments in the public sector are not widely used. However, as the practice shows, they are used to determine the expected utility of the proposed solutions or implemented changes, and the dominant method is pilotage. The study presents the theoretical approach to the experiment using pilotage, so as to show that the experiment gives the opportunity to indicate a “better” solution and provide justification for such a selection. In the chapter, the authors analysed the adopted assumptions of selected pilot implementations in the PSUs, the aim of which was to test and evaluate the solution to be used in practice as an expression of public participation. The analysis indicated that the visible use of piloting in the behaviour modelling of individuals included in the society is a good tool to maximise the usefulness of public tasks designed by LGUs.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The Axiom of comparability means that a society unit can always determine its preferences for every public task.

  2. 2.

    The Axiom of transitoriness means that a unit of society prefers A to task B and B to sentence C, and it also prefers sentence A to sentence C.

  3. 3.

    The Axiom of independence (it was not literally formulated in the work of Neumann and Morgenstern) means that if the X and Y tasks are indifferent to the society unit, the choice should be indifferent between the implementation of the task:

    • X with probability p and event V with probability 1 − p;

    • Y with probability p and event V with probability 1 − p.

  4. 4.

    The Axiom of stability means that the choice between tasks should depend only on the characteristics of these sentences and should not change when both sentences are subject to the same transformations.

  5. 5.

    Information about the project Raport [38] and www.1 [52].

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  2. Faculty of Finance and Banking, Institute of Finance, WSB University in Poznań, Powstańców Wlkp. 5, 61-895, Poznań, Poland

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Filipiak, B.Z., Dylewski, M. (2020). Pilot Study as a Case of Applying an Experimental Approach to the Implementation of Tasks in the Public Sector. In: Nermend, K., Łatuszyńska, M. (eds) Experimental and Quantitative Methods in Contemporary Economics. CMEE 2018. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30251-1_24

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