Tag: Expertise

November 30, 2024

Making Public Policy Decisions Expertise, skills and experience

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Free Download Damon Alexander, "Making Public Policy Decisions: Expertise, skills and experience "
English | ISBN: 1138743763 | 2017 | 206 pages | PDF | 2 MB
To understand public policy decisions, it is imperative to understand the capacities of the individual actors who are making them, how they think and feel about their role, and what drives and motivates them. However, the current literature takes little account of this, preferring instead to frame the decisions as the outcomes of a rational search for value-maximising alternatives or the result of systematic and well-ordered institutional and organisational processes.

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September 26, 2024

Itineraries of Expertise Science, Technology, and the Environment in Latin America’s Long Cold War

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Free Download Andra B. Chastain, "Itineraries of Expertise: Science, Technology, and the Environment in Latin America’s Long Cold War "
English | ISBN: 0822945967 | 2020 | 366 pages | PDF | 22 MB
Itineraries of Expertise contends that experts and expertise played fundamental roles in the Latin American Cold War. While traditional Cold War histories of the region have examined diplomatic, intelligence, and military operations and more recent studies have probed the cultural dimensions of the conflict, the experts who constitute the focus of this volume escaped these categories. Although they often portrayed themselves as removed from politics, their work contributed to the key geopolitical agendas of the day. The paths traveled by the experts in this volume not only traversed Latin America and connected Latin America to the Global North, they also stretch traditional chronologies of the Latin American Cold War to show how local experts in the early twentieth century laid the foundation for post-World War II development projects, and how Cold War knowledge of science, technology, and the environment continues to impact our world today. These essays unite environmental history and the history of science and technology to argue for the importance of expertise in the Latin American Cold War.

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April 25, 2024

Evidence and Expertise in Nordic Education Policy A Comparative Network Analysis

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Free Download Berit Karseth, "Evidence and Expertise in Nordic Education Policy: A Comparative Network Analysis"
English | ISBN: 3030919587 | 2022 | 453 pages | PDF | 10 MB
This open access book explores how policy makers draw on national, regional and international expertise in issuing school reform within five Nordic countries. In an era of international comparison, policy makers are expected to review best practices, learn from experiences from elsewhere, and apply international standards propelled by international organizations. Do they do so? What counts, for them, as evidence and expertise? The chapters draw methodologically on bibliometric data, network analysis, document analysis and expert interviews. They show compellingly how governments use "evidence" strategically and selectively for agenda setting and policy decisions. This book will be of interest and value to scholars of education policy, specifically within the Nordic region, and international and comparative education.

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April 25, 2024

Action in Uncertainty Expertise, Decision and Crisis Management

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Free Download Action in Uncertainty: Expertise, Decision and Crisis Management
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1786308770 | 150 Pages | EPUB | 0.6 MB
What choices, strategies or methods need to be implemented so that action is as effective as possible in terms of the objectives to be achieved? We should not delude ourselves about the term "good decision", which does not have much meaning when we act in an uncertain environment and when we know the weakness of forecasts. However, we must know how to act and be capable of taking the most appropriate action.

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