From Muddling Through to Muddling Up - Evidence Based Policy Making and the Modernisation of British Government Export

@article{citeulike:3386030, abstract = {This article critically reviews the approach to evidence based policy-making (EBPM) advanced in the Labour government's modernisation agenda. The article contends that EBPM must be understood as a project focused on enhancing the techniques of managing strategic policy-making as opposed to improving the capacities of the social sciences to influence the practices of democracy' as envisaged by Lasswell, or facilitating the kind of systems thinking advocated by Schon and by more recent students of complexity'. 10.1177/095207670201700304}, author = {Parsons, Wayne}, citeulike-article-id = {3386030}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://ppa.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/17/3/43}, day = {1}, journal = {Public Policy and Administration}, keywords = {based, evidence, health, policy, politics, public}, month = {July}, number = {3}, pages = {43--60}, posted-at = {2008-10-08 12:57:09}, priority = {2}, title = {From Muddling Through to Muddling Up - Evidence Based Policy Making and the Modernisation of British Government}, url = {http://ppa.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/17/3/43}, volume = {17}, year = {2002} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3386030 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3386030 N2 - This article critically reviews the approach to evidence based policy-making (EBPM) advanced in the Labour government's modernisation agenda. The article contends that EBPM must be understood as a project focused on enhancing the techniques of managing strategic policy-making as opposed to improving the capacities of the social sciences to influence the practices of democracy' as envisaged by Lasswell, or facilitating the kind of systems thinking advocated by Schon and by more recent students of complexity'. 10.1177/095207670201700304 IS - 3 JF - Public Policy and Administration EP - 60 TI - From Muddling Through to Muddling Up - Evidence Based Policy Making and the Modernisation of British Government VL - 17 SP - 43 KW - based KW - evidence KW - health KW - policy KW - politics KW - public AU - Parsons, Wayne PY - 2002/07/01/ UR - http://ppa.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/17/3/43 ER -