Uncertainty in Policy Making: Values and Evidence in Complex Decisions - Brossura

Heazle, Michael

 
9781138986381: Uncertainty in Policy Making: Values and Evidence in Complex Decisions
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ISBN 10: 1138986380 ISBN 13: 9781138986381
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2016

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Uncertainty in Policy Making explores how uncertainty is interpreted and used by policy makers, experts and politicians. It argues that conventional notions of rational, evidence-based policy making - hailed by governments and organisations across the world as the only way to make good policy - is an impossible aim in highly complex and uncertain environments; the blind pursuit of such a 'rational' goal is in fact irrational in a world of competing values and interests.

The book centres around two high-profile and important case studies: the Iraq war and climate change policy in the US, UK and Australia. Based on three years' research, including interviews with experts such as Hans Blix, Paul Pillar, and Brian Jones, these two case studies show that the treatment of uncertainty issues in specialist advice is largely determined by how well the advice fits with or contradicts the policy goals and orientation of the policy elite. Instead of allowing the debates to be side-tracked by arguments over whose science or expert advice is 'more right', we must accept that uncertainty in complex issues is unavoidable and recognise the values and interests that lie at the heart of the issues. The book offers a 'hedging' approach which will enable policy makers to manage rather than eliminate uncertainty.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Michael Heazle is Associate Professor in International Relations with the Griffith Asia Institute and the Department of International Business and Asian Studies at Griffith University

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Editore
Routledge
Data di pubblicazione
2016
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1138986380
ISBN 13 
9781138986381
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
204
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
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9781849710831: Uncertainty in Policy Making: Values and Evidence in Complex Decisions

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ISBN 10:  184971083X ISBN 13:  9781849710831
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2010
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