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| Genre/Form: | Aufsatzsammlung Case studies |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Marco Verweij; M Thompson |
| ISBN: | 0230002307 9780230002302 |
| OCLC Number: | 65400863 |
| Description: | xiii, 255 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | The case for clumsiness / Marco Verweij ... [et al.] -- Is the Kyoto Protocol merely irrelevant, or positively harmful, for the efforts to curb climate change? / Marco Verweij -- Hype and hydro (and, at last, some hope) in the Himalaya / Dipak Gyawali -- Segregation through anti-discrimination : how the Netherlands got divided again / Mark Bovens and Margo Trappenburg -- What Russia can learn from China in its transition to a market economy / Michael D. Intriligator, Janine R. Wedel and Catherine H. Lee -- The failure of seat belts legislation / John Adams -- Gunfight at the consequentialist corral : the deadlock in the United States over firearms control, and how to break it / Dan M. Kahan, Donald Braman and John Gastil -- Floods and fairness in Hungary / Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer, Anna Vári and Michael Thompson -- Inclusive by design : the curious case of the Internet / Tommy Tranvik and Michael Thompson -- You never miss the water till the well runs dry : crisis and creativity in California / Denise Lach, Helen Ingram and Steve Rayner -- Clumsy conclusions : how to do policy and research in a complex world / Marco Verweij, Michael Thompson and Christoph Engel. |
| Series Title: | Global issues series (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm)) |
| Responsibility: | edited by Marco Verweij and Michael Thompson. |
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'Casual observers might think 'clumsiness' comes naturally to government and public policy-making. If so, they might be surprised by how often it is carefully suppressed - often with disastrous consequences, as this book shows. We need to develop the methodology for the important angle of vision this book represents.' - Christopher Hood, Gladstone Professor of Government, University of Oxford, UK 'This study is a clever and important assault on the precepts 'drummed into the heads of those who aspire to be policy analysts' - that there is a single mindset in which a problem must be defined, facts and values distinguished and simple evaluative metrics deployed to achieve optimisation. The authors demonstrate the tragedies perpetrated by this dangerous approach. They show that plural voices - as identified by cultural theory - are necessary for clumsy, but safe, constructively engaged and politically feasible policy-making.' - Professor Tony Allan, KCL/SOAS University of London, UK '...anyone eager to look at an adequately complex model for governance that satisfies sociology's stringent standards might usefully turn to this volume.' - Michalis Lianos, British Journal of Sociology Read more...
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- Policy sciences -- Decision making -- Case studies.
- Politics and culture.
- Social perception -- Political aspects.
- Techniques de décision en politique.
- Politikfeldanalyse.
- Entscheidungsfindung.
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