Michael Heazle

Uncertainty in Policy Making

Values and Evidence in Complex Decisions

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9781138986381
• ISBN-10: 1138986380
• Artikelnr.: 45192198

Autorenporträt

Michael Heazle is Associate Professor in International Relations with the Griffith Asia Institute and the Department of International Business and Asian Studies at Griffith University

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Paul Pillar
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1. Introduction: A Story of (Irrational) Great Expectations
2: Policy Making and Specialist Advice: Concepts and Approaches
3: Empowering Nightmares: Uncertainty and the Precautionary Principle
4: Legitimizing the Iraq Intervention: Threat Inflation versus Precaution
5: Climate Change and the Politics of Precaution
6: Uncertainty, Ideology, and the Politics of Denial
7: Revealing Values and Uncertainty in Policy Debate
8: Alternative Responses to Uncertainty: Bringing Politics Back in
9: Uncertainty as Deus Ex Machina: Some Concluding Remarks
Notes
Bibliography