Impact Trust • Working glossary
Critical juncture analysis
Identifying key decision points or events that could send a situation down very different paths, with estimated probabilities.
Details
Context introduced
Useful analytical method; the label sounds academic. “Fork in the road analysis” or “what-if mapping” might work better in practice.
Source
Cascade Institute, political science
Source / First Appears In
Cascade Institute TDT session
Authors
Impact Trust team
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