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The Politics of Evidence-Based Policy Making

Hardcover • 2015 • 1. edition

The Politics of Evidence-Based Policy Making

By Paul Cairney

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About the book

The Politics of Evidence Based Policymaking identifies how to work with policymakers to maximize the use of scientific evidence. Policymakers cannot consider all evidence relevant to policy problems. They use two shortcuts: `rational' ways to gather enough evidence, and `irrational' decision-making, drawing on emotions, beliefs, and habits. Most scientific studies focus on the former. They identify uncertainty when policymakers have incomplete evidence, and try to solve it by improving the suppl...Show more

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9781137517807

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Palgrave Macmillan

Published year

2015

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1

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The Politics of Evidence-Based Policy Making

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Hardcover

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