Science Competes - Informing Policy in a Time of Distrust, Fracture, and Chaos

When science competes with myriad influences in public policymaking, how can we ensure that it does so effectively? Policymakers, like most people today, have a world of information within easy reach, much of it wrong. How, amidst the chaos and misdirection of our day's information ecosystem, can science compete for the attention and trust of those who make public policy--especially at a time when issues like proliferating infectious diseases and climate change put a premium on accurate and relevant scientific information? What's needed, Barry Bozeman suggests in Acknowledging the importance of different sorts of information--historical, experiential, political, e.g.--to decision making, Bozeman focuses on enhancing, not maximizing, the effective use of science in public policy. This entails recognizing that valid and useful scientific information is not necessarily formal scientific knowledge, but often takes the form of science by-products such as raw or structured data, graphics, and conceptual models. Explaining how such information can be better distinguished from half-truths and pernicious falsehoods,

Product details

• Authors: Barry Bozeman, Bozeman Barry
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2025
• EAN: 9780262552431
• ISBN: 978-0-262-55243-1
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Information Policy
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Politics & government, Central / national / federal government policies