ABSTRACT
We begin by looking at traditional policymaking software, although not all of it is traditional. In fact most packages tend to display a mixture of both traditional and innovative approaches. Therefore, some programs described here may have been better placed somewhere in the following two chapters and labelled differently. Yet we wanted to make all chapters of roughly equal length (!), so we opted for a subjective assessment of each package’s dominant flavour. We then decided whether or not to designate it as ‘traditional’, ‘supporting’, ‘emerging’ or ‘research frontier’ software. No doubt some misclassifications have occurred.
