Methods for Policy Research: Taking Socially Responsible Action

Methods for Policy Research: Taking Socially Responsible Action
ISBN-10
1483315932
ISBN-13
9781483315935
Category
Social Science
Pages
184
Language
English
Published
2013-05-17
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Authors
Ann Majchrzak, M. Lynne Markus

Description

Methods for Policy Research, Second Edition, by Ann Majchrzak and M. Lynne Markus, is a book about responsible and evidence-based policy decision making written for those interested in improving the decisions that affect people’s lives. It describes how to define policy research questions so that evidence can be applied to policy decisions, how to find and synthesize existing evidence, how to generate new evidence if needed, how to make acceptable recommendations that can solve policy problems without negative side effects, and how to describe evidence and policy recommendations in a manner that changes minds. The suggestions made throughout the book are based on the fundamental belief that evidence-based decision making is superior to decisions based purely on opinion, intuition, and emotion.

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