The Politics of Evidence-Based Policy Making
ISBN:
9781349704279
Auflage:
1st ed. 2016
Verlag:
Palgrave Macmillan UK, Palgrave Pivot
Land des Verlags:
Vereinigtes Königreich
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.05.2016
Format:
Softcover
Seitenanzahl:
137
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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 supply of information. They do not respond to
ambiguity, or the potential for policymakers to understand problems in very
different ways. A good strategy requires advocates to be persuasive: forming
coalitions with like-minded actors, and accompanying evidence with simple stories
to exploit the emotional or ideological biases of policymakers.
Schlagwörter
Biografische Anmerkung
Paul Cairney
is Professor of Politics and Public
Policy, University of Stirling. His research interests are in comparative public policy, including:
comparisons of policy theories (Understanding
Public Policy, 2012); outcomes in different countries (Global Tobacco Control, 2012), and UK and devolved policymaking (Scottish Politics, 2013).
