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The Politics of Evidence-Based Policy Making by Paul Cairney (auth.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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.

Who reads The Politics of Evidence-Based Policy Making?

Author

Paul Cairney (auth.)

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781137517814

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Technology, Political Science