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Data and Policy Change
David Dery
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Description for Data and Policy Change
Hardback. Num Pages: 160 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 950.
This is a work on "hostile" data and the conditions under which they are accepted and rejected. What is the place of data in politics and organization? Why are politicians and administrators so often hostile to research data, or why do they tend to perceive data as hostile to them? How can data become relevant to policy? These questions are the focus of this book. In answer I try to show how political and administrative institutions cope with "hostile" data; how they seek to maintain closedness to disconfirming data, and how they are led, in a free society, to change ... Read more
This is a work on "hostile" data and the conditions under which they are accepted and rejected. What is the place of data in politics and organization? Why are politicians and administrators so often hostile to research data, or why do they tend to perceive data as hostile to them? How can data become relevant to policy? These questions are the focus of this book. In answer I try to show how political and administrative institutions cope with "hostile" data; how they seek to maintain closedness to disconfirming data, and how they are led, in a free society, to change ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9780792390572
SKU
V9780792390572
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99-15
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