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Ethics for Policymaking - A Methodological Analysis (Hardcover, New)
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Ethics for Policymaking - A Methodological Analysis (Hardcover, New)
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In Ethics for Policymaking Eugene Meehan presents a sustained
argument in favor of a particular perspective on the relationship
between normative judgments or arguments and policymaking, based
upon a radically different approach to providing a justification
for actions, whether individual or collective. Meehan's overall
objective is to establish the knowledge requirements, empirical and
normative, for defensible/corrigible policymaking and thereby to
produce an analytic apparatus that can be used to improve
intellectual performance in the conduct of real world affairs. By
grounding the meanings of fundamental concepts such as "knowledge"
and "policy" within a suitable analytic framework, a major source
of disagreement and misunderstanding among those concerned to
further the quest for useful knowledge is eliminated, and the
possibilities of productive knowledge transfers among specialized
disciplines are much enhanced. Following a detailed introductory
essay, Meehan approaches his complex subject by developing the
intellectual requirements for directing actions, focusing on
criteria of adequacy applicable to inductive cognitive systems and
on the theoretical assumptions underlying them. After a brief
summary of empirical requirements the normative apparatus required
for defensible policymaking is examined at length in three stages:
first an analysis is made of the kind of conceptual apparatus that
the enterprise requires; second, a way of justifying preferences
that avoids the major pitfalls inherent in limited human capacity
is produced; third, other constraints and possibilities that flow
from the need to make policy within a social context are explored.
The discussion concludes witha brief examination of the major
intellectual, social, and political implications of the analysis.
Those involved in activities in which major policy decisions will
profoundly affect the well-being of client populations and students
and scholars of applied political theory will also find this text
invaluable.
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