Evidence, Argument, and Persuasion in the Policy Process - Hardcover

Majone, Giandomenico

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300041594 ISBN 13: 9780300041590

Publisher: Yale University Press, 1989

Synopsis

Challenges the common assumption that policy analysts engage in a purely objective technical assessment of policy alternatives. This book argues that what analysts really do is produce policy arguments that are based on value judgements and are used by policymakers in the course of public debate.

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This book challenges the common assumption that policy analysts engage in purely objective technical assessment of policy alternatives. It argues instead that what analysts really do is produce policy arguments that are based on value judgments and are used by policymakers in the course of public debate. Giandomenico Majone shows that the essential need today is not to develop 'objective' measures of outcomes but rather to improve the methods and conditions of public discourse at all levels and stages of policy making.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0300041594
• ISBN 13: 9780300041590
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224