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Facts, Values and the Policy World /
This book tackles the prevailing contradiction within policy analysis, that rigorous thought should be uncontaminated by values, despite policy analysis being inherently values based. In resolving the issue, this book provides a new, solid foundation for policy analysis.
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
Policy Press,
2022.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Front Cover -- Facts, Values and the Policy World -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments and dedication -- Introduction -- But what's wrong with the binary view? ... -- ... And what's the alternative to it? -- A note on terminology -- Values and norms -- Belief -- Policy world -- Plan of this work -- Part I The binary view: effects and durability -- 1 Some effects of the binary view -- The great divide -- The end of the line -- Fatal divisions -- 'Whose values will prevail'? -- 2 The quest for exogenous values -- The decision maker as a source of values | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Summation strategies -- Values are subjective ... with one exception -- Only happiness matters -- Conclusion -- 3 The durable flotsam of the binary view -- Many histories -- Binary social constructionism? -- Incommensurability -- 4 Convenient belief -- Conclusion to Part I: A world on autopilot -- Part II Non-binary analysis -- 5 Forms of care -- From is to ought, and back again -- Paying attention to attention -- Trust -- Language and reality -- Straddling terms -- Protecting the normative goods -- Autonomy of facts from values -- Autonomy of values from facts -- Protection from authoritarianism | |
| 505 | 0 | |a 6 Networks of belief -- Opaque networks of belief -- Degrees of belief -- Time-release beliefs -- Who is at the table? -- The problem of firmness, and policy training -- True and false values and interests -- There is no 'end of the line' -- 7 Networks of beliefs and practices -- Means and ends -- Multiple ends in the workplace -- Attention as a scarce resource: nudges and habits -- 8 Decision contexts -- Weak decision contexts -- The need for healthy contexts -- But who should promote those contexts? -- The subservient analyst model -- The Iraq case -- Imperfect democracy | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Is the non-binary approach 'practical'? -- 9 The analyst in context -- Variations in context -- Transforming contexts -- Paralysis of analysis? -- Other spaces -- Citizens as the 'addressee' of analysis -- Countering groupthink -- Going deeper into the swamp -- Conclusion: 'demarcating' practices and contexts -- Conclusion to Part II: The instincts of the non-binary analyst -- Part III Caveats -- 10 Experts and expertise -- Critiques -- Expertise as 'fiction' -- The epistemological problem -- The excessive power of experts -- The distance between experts and other citizens | |
| 505 | 0 | |a The non-binary approach and the problems of expertise -- 11 The limits of dialogue -- Dialogue need not lead to agreement -- Elusive truth -- Policy dialogue and the analyst as facilitator -- Unavoidable truth-judgments -- Possible tensions between dialogue objectives -- Perennial challenges -- Skewed dialogue -- Dialogue and mixed motives -- Conclusion -- Works cited -- Index -- Back Cover | |
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