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A Subtle Balance : Expertise, Evidence, and Democracy in Public Policy Governance, 1970-2010.
Title:
A Subtle Balance : Expertise, Evidence, and Democracy in Public Policy Governance, 1970-2010.
Author:
Parson, Edward A.
ISBN:
9780773583825
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (342 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1 A Subtle Balance: Editor's Introduction -- 2 Public Policy Analysis in Canada: A Forty-Year Overview -- 3 Affairs of the Smart: Will Researchers and Decision-Makers "Hook Up"? -- 4 Expertise and Evidence in Public Policy: In Defence of (a Little) Technocracy -- 5 Program Evaluation and Aboriginal Affairs: A History and a Thought Experiment -- 6 The Canada Pension Plan and Policy Reform: Shifting Spaces for Democratic Deliberation -- 7 Tales of Quantitative Analysis and Public Policy -- 8 Environmental Issues: Fifty Years of Change and Current Challenges -- 9 Climate Engineering: New Challenges for Scientific Assessment and Global Governance -- 10 Seeing Like a Sound? Resource Management and Property Rights in Clayoquot Sound -- 11 Profits v. Purpose: Hybrid Companies and the Charitable Dollar -- 12 The Future of Computer-Supported Policy Analysis: Collaboration, Openness, Collective Intelligence, and Competition -- 13 It's Not My Problem: Personal Moral Responsibility for Policy Advice -- 14 What is an Honest Policy Analyst to Do? -- 15 Speaking Elusive Truth to Shifting Power: Reflections on Evolving Styles, Changing Views, and New Problems -- 16 A Subtle Balance: Reflection and Synthesis -- References -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W.
Abstract:
A critical review of major trends and enduring tensions in Canadian public policy and governance since 1970.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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