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Uncertainty in Policy Making: Values and Evidence in Complex Decisions - Couverture rigide

Heazle, Michael

 
9781849710831: Uncertainty in Policy Making: Values and Evidence in Complex Decisions
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 184971083X ISBN 13 : 9781849710831
Editeur : Earthscan Ltd, 2010

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

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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Éditeur
Earthscan Ltd
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
184971083X
ISBN 13 
9781849710831
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
204
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
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