The politics of evidence : : from evidence-based policy to the good governance of evidence / / Justin Parkhurst.
There has been an enormous increase in interest in the use of evidence for public policymaking, but the vast majority of work on the subject has failed to engage with the political nature of decision making and how this influences the ways in which evidence will be used (or misused) within political...
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