Bassey, Michael (2013) Book review: Evidence-based policy: a practical guide to doing it better. LSE Review of Books (19 May 2013). Website.
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"Evidence-Based Policy: A Practical Guide to Doing it Better." Nancy Cartwright and Jeremy Hardie. Oxford University Press. 2012. --- Over the last twenty or so years, it has become standard to require policy makers 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? Evidence-Based Policy contends that the dominant methods which are in use now – methods that imitate standard practices in medicine like randomised control trials – do not work. Michael Bassey believes policymakers should engage in the kind of critical and analytical processes advocated by this book before rolling out social changes.
Item Type: | Online resource (Website) |
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Official URL: | http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/ |
Additional Information: | © 2013 The Author |
Divisions: | LSE |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform J Political Science > JA Political science (General) |
Date Deposited: | 01 Nov 2013 09:41 |
Last Modified: | 13 Sep 2024 18:33 |
URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/53946 |
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