Description: Evidence-Based Policy : A Practical Guide to Doing It Better, Paperback by Cartwright, Nancy; Hardie, Jeremy, ISBN 0199841624, ISBN-13 9780199841622, Used Good Condition, Free shipping in the US Over the last twenty or so years, it has become standard to require policy makers to base their recommendations on evidence. That is now uncontroversial to the point of triviality--of course, policy should be based on the facts. But are the methods that policy makers rely on to gather and
analyze evidence the right ones? In Evidence-Based Policy, Nancy Cartwright, an eminent scholar, and Jeremy Hardie, who has had a long and successful career in both business and the economy, explain that the dominant methods which are in use now--broadly speaking, methods that imitate standard
practices in medicine like randomized control trials--do not work. They fail, Cartwright and Hardie contend, because they do not enhance our ability to predict if policies will be effective.
The prevailing methods fall short not just because social science, which operates within the domain of real-world politics and deals with people, differs so much from the natural science milieu of the lab. Rather, there are principled reasons why the advice for crafting and implementing policy now
on offer will lead to bad results. Current guides in use tend to rank scientific methods according to the degree of trustworthiness of the evidence they produce. That is valuable in certain respects, but such approaches offer little advice about how to think about putting such evidence to use.
Evidence-Based Policy focuses on showing policymakers how to effectively use evidence, explaining what types of information are most necessary for making reliable policy, and offers lessons on how to organize that information.
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Book Title: Evidence-Based Policy : A Practical Guide to Doing It Better
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Evidence-Based Policy : a Practical Guide to Doing It Better
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Subject: Public Policy / General, Human Services, General
Publication Year: 2012
Item Height: 0.6 in
Item Weight: 10.6 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science
Author: Jeremy Hardie, Nancy Cartwright
Item Length: 9.1 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
