Uncertainty in Policy Making : Values and Evidence in Complex Decisions.
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 a...
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| 505 | 0 | |a Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Introduction: A Story of (Irrational) Great Expectations; Chapter 2 Policy Making and Specialist Advice: Concepts and Approaches; Chapter 3 Empowering Nightmares: Uncertainty and the Precautionary Principle; Chapter 4 Legitimizing the Iraq Intervention: Threat Inflation Versus Precaution; Chapter 5 Climate Change and the Politics of Precaution; Chapter 6 Uncertainty, Ideology and the Politics of Denial; Chapter 7 Revealing Values and Uncertainty in Policy Debate. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Chapter 8 Alternative Responses to Uncertainty: Bringing Politics Back InChapter 9 Uncertainty as Deus ex Machina: Some Concluding Remarks; Notes; Bibliography; Index. | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
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