Uncertainty in Policy Making: Values and Evidence in Complex Decisions

by Michael Heazle

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138986380
• ISBN13: 9781138986381
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"