Evidence-Based Policy: A Practical Guide to Doing It Better

Evidence-Based Policy: A Practical Guide to Doing It Better
ISBN-10
0199841624
ISBN-13
9780199841622
Series
Evidence-Based Policy
Category
Education
Pages
196
Language
English
Published
2012-09-27
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Authors
Nancy Cartwright, Jeremy Hardie

Description

Over the last twenty or so years, it has become standard to require policymakers 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 analyse evidence the right ones? This book explains that the dominant methods which are in use now - broadly speaking, methods that imitate standard practices in medicine, like randomised control trials - do not work. They fail because they do not enhance our ability to predict if policies will be effective.

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