ANNOTATION: A study of policymaking, and human behavior as it relates to the process. This is a report issued by Ralph Widner's Academy for Contemporary Problems, in Columbus, Ohio. Call Number(Lib. Of Congress?) HD69. D4 .W3 OCLC Number = 172-2447

Improving Behavior in Policymaking was one of three small booklets issued as reports in 1975 by the newly founded Academy for Contemporary Problems which had been established in Columbus, under the auspices of Battelle Memorial Institue. Ralph Widner, former head of the Appalachian Regional Commission had been hired by Battelle to come in and run the Academy with the hopes that eventually it might blossom into a reputable high powered research institute and intellectual retreat in the Midwest.

The cost was set at $2 million in September, 1971 for two buildings encompassing 20,000 square feet; Batelle and Ohio State agreed to share the cost of supporting the Academy for ten years. Warfield left Battelle in 1974 for a job at University of Virginia. He had written two articles and co-authored a third during the Academy for Contemporary Problems years; they were published as these small booklets, or reports the following year.

The reports were a four-part series titled "Approaches to Problem-Solving." Warfield did not write one of the four titles of the series, and it was not saved in his office files. The titles of the 3 which were saved are: Improving Behavior in Policymaking; TOTOS: Improving Group Problem Solving; and Methods of Idea Management by Warfield, J. N., H. Geschka, and R. Hamilton.