Evidence, Argument, and Persuasion in the Policy Process

By G. Majone. 1989

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Ethical principles in machine learning and artificial intelligence: cases from the field and possible ways forward (2020, methodology): “Additionally, a modelling of the modelling process would assist in the model transparency and in addressing questions such as: Are the results from a particular model more sensitive to changes in the model and the methods used to estimate its parameters, or to changes in the data? (Majone, 1989).”
The Globalization of Liberalization: Policy Diffusion in the International Political Economy (2004, unknown): “Furthermore,modelsusedbyfavored culturalgroupsmayprovideapersuasiverhetorical spininthedebatesthataccompanypolicyevaluation (ontheimportanceofrhetoricandpersuasiontothe policy evaluation process see Majone 1989).”
Tourism Governance and Attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals in Africa (2019, background): “Meta-governance enables us to appreciate central-state led hierarchical authorities and micro-practices of innovation (Majone, 1989).”
Policy Analysis and Governance: Analytical and Policy Styles in Canada (2004, background): “There have been debates about whether policy analysis has improved on the outcomes associated with less instrumental processes such as bargaining, compromise, negotiation and logrolling (Tribe 1972, Fischer and Forester 1993, Majone 1989).”
Evidence in Practice: A Framing of the Terrain (2007, background): “rhetoric (Majone, 1989), they are part and parcel of decision-making processes from the statehouse to the schoolhouse.”
Shale gas policy in the United Kingdom: An argumentative discourse analysis (2014, methodology): “Our empirical analysis uses an argumentative discourse analytic approach (hereafter ADAA) (Fischer, 1995; Hajer and Versteeg, 2005; Majone, 1989) which has been previously proved to be valuable in uncovering the linguistic relationships embedded in numerous energy policy analyses, for example in rel”
Reconceptualising the 'policy mix' for innovation (2011, background): “Majone (1989) suggests that policy makers use theory in a selective way to justify policy action and indeed policy choices are influenced by norms, beliefs, goals and pressures that differ from those in the academic community.”
Three habits of successful policy entrepreneurs (2018, background): “Entrepreneurs recognise the key distinction between the exercise of power to reduce ambiguity and the production of evidence to reduce uncertainty (Zahariadis, 2007, 66; Baumgartner and Jones, 1993, 31; Majone, 1989; Cairney, 2012, 234).”
Rationalising the Policy Mess? Ex Ante Policy Assessment and the Utilisation of Knowledge in the Policy Process (2009, background): “played by ideas, arguments, and discourse in shaping policy debates and ultimately decision making (Fischer and Forester, 1993; Majone, 1989).”
Harnessing theories of the policy process for analysing the politics of sustainability transitions: A critical survey (2017, background): “The framework is designed to understand policy change and stability over periods of a decade or more and draws on classic works in political science, including Heclo (1974, 1978), Majone (1989), Kiser and Ostrom (1982), Putnam (1976) and Simon (1947, 1957).”