Uncertainty in policy making : values and evidence in complex decisions /

This text 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...

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Main Author:	Heazle, Michael
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Earthscan, 2010.
Series:	Science in society series.
Subjects:	Policy sciences. Political planning. Politics and government. United States. Political science. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book