The Politics of Evidence-Based Policy Making
‘This is essential reading for anyone interested in how evidence and policy interact in the real world. Paul Cairney plots an entertaining course outlining the main debates of the evidence-based policy movement, drawing on up-to-date research and fascinat
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The Politics of Evidence-Based Policy Making
Paul Cairney
The Politics of Evidence-Based Policy Making
Paul Cairney University of Stirling Stirling, United Kingdom
ISBN 978-1-137-51780-7 ISBN 978-1-137-51781-4 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-51781-4
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For my lovely partner Linda, our beautiful children, Evie, Alfie, and Frankie, and our smelly but handsome dogs, Coco and Mabel.
PREVIOUS PUBLICATIONS
HANDBOOK ON COMPLEXITY AND PUBLIC POLICY (co-edited with Robert Geyer, 2015) SCOTTISH POLITICS 2ND ED. (with Neil McGarvey, 2013) GLOBAL TOBACCO CONTROL: Power, Policy, Governance and Transfer (with Donley Studlar and Haddii Mamudu, 2012) UNDERSTANDING PUBLIC POLICY: Theories and Issues (2012) THE SCOTTISH POLITICAL SYSTEM SINCE DEVOLUTION: From New Politics to the New Scottish Government (2011) SCOTTISH POLITICS (with Neil McGarvey, 2008)
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PREFACE
When I first presented a paper on this topic, I joked that, having read one of Patrick Dunleavy’s blog posts on the importance of descriptive paper titles, I was so pleased with this one that I didn’t have to bother with the rest: Evidence-Based Policymaking: If You Want to Inject More Science into Policymaking You Need to Know the Science of Policymaking. I then toyed with the more enigmatic The Science of Policymaking and The Science of Evidence-Based Policymaking, to make it shorter but still signal that the book is a call to scientists to better understand the policy process before they criticise it or seek influence within it. Such titles might als
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