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Evidence-based policy : a practical guide to doing it better / Nancy Cartwright and Jeremy Hardie.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: ix, 196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0199841624
  • 9780199841622
  • 0199841608
  • 9780199841608
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.6 23
LOC classification:
  • H97 .C375 2012
Contents:
Part I. Getting Started: From `It Worked There' to `It Will Work Here'. -- Part II. Paving the Road from 'There' to 'Here' -- Part III. Strategies for Finding What You Need to Know -- Part IV. RCTs, Evidence-Ranking Schemes, and Fidelity -- Part VI. Conclusion -- --
Part I. Getting Started: From `It Worked There' to `It Will Work Here'. -- I. A: What's in This Book and Why -- I. B: The Theory that Backs up What We Say -- -- Part II. Paving the Road from 'There' to 'Here' -- II. A: Support Factors: Causal Cakes and their Ingredients -- II. B: Causal Roles: Shared and Unshared -- -- Part III. Strategies for Finding What You Need to Know -- III. A: Where We are and Where We are Going -- III. B: Four Strategies -- -- Part IV. RCTs, Evidence-Ranking Schemes, and Fidelity -- IV. A: Where We are and Where We are Going -- IV. B: What are RCTs Good For? -- IV. C: Evidence-Ranking Schemes, Advice Guides, and Choosing Effective Policies -- IV. D: Fidelity -- -- Part V. Deliberation is not Second Best -- V. A: Where We are and Where We are Going -- V. B: Centralization and Discretion -- -- Part VI. Conclusion -- Appendix I. Representing Causal Processes -- Appendix II. The Munro Review -- Appendix III. CCTV and Car Theft.
Summary: "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 analyze evidence the right ones? In Evidence-Based Policy, Nancy Cartwright, an eminent scholar, and Jeremy Hardie, who has had a long and successful career in both business and the economy, explain that the dominant methods which are in use now--broadly speaking, methods that imitate standard practices in medicine like randomized control trials--do not work. They fail, Cartwright and Hardie contend, because they do not enhance our ability to predict if policies will be effective. "--Publisher's website.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Getting Started: From `It Worked There' to `It Will Work Here'. -- Part II. Paving the Road from 'There' to 'Here' -- Part III. Strategies for Finding What You Need to Know -- Part IV. RCTs, Evidence-Ranking Schemes, and Fidelity -- Part VI. Conclusion -- --

Part I. Getting Started: From `It Worked There' to `It Will Work Here'. -- I. A: What's in This Book and Why -- I. B: The Theory that Backs up What We Say -- -- Part II. Paving the Road from 'There' to 'Here' -- II. A: Support Factors: Causal Cakes and their Ingredients -- II. B: Causal Roles: Shared and Unshared -- -- Part III. Strategies for Finding What You Need to Know -- III. A: Where We are and Where We are Going -- III. B: Four Strategies -- -- Part IV. RCTs, Evidence-Ranking Schemes, and Fidelity -- IV. A: Where We are and Where We are Going -- IV. B: What are RCTs Good For? -- IV. C: Evidence-Ranking Schemes, Advice Guides, and Choosing Effective Policies -- IV. D: Fidelity -- -- Part V. Deliberation is not Second Best -- V. A: Where We are and Where We are Going -- V. B: Centralization and Discretion -- -- Part VI. Conclusion -- Appendix I. Representing Causal Processes -- Appendix II. The Munro Review -- Appendix III. CCTV and Car Theft.

"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 analyze evidence the right ones? In Evidence-Based Policy, Nancy Cartwright, an eminent scholar, and Jeremy Hardie, who has had a long and successful career in both business and the economy, explain that the dominant methods which are in use now--broadly speaking, methods that imitate standard practices in medicine like randomized control trials--do not work. They fail, Cartwright and Hardie contend, because they do not enhance our ability to predict if policies will be effective. "--Publisher's website.

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