Facts, Values and the Policy World

Front Cover -- Facts, Values And The Policy World -- Copyright Information -- Table Of Contents -- Acknowledgments And Dedication -- Introduction -- But What's Wrong With The Binary View? ... -- ... And What's The Alternative To It? -- A Note On Terminology -- Values And Norms -- Belief -- Policy World -- Plan Of This Work -- Part I The Binary View: Effects And Durability -- 1 Some Effects Of The Binary View -- The Great Divide -- The End Of The Line -- Fatal Divisions -- 'whose Values Will Prevail'? -- 2 The Quest For Exogenous Values -- The Decision Maker As A Source Of Values Summation Strategies -- Values Are Subjective ... With One Exception -- Only Happiness Matters -- Conclusion -- 3 The Durable Flotsam Of The Binary View -- Many Histories -- Binary Social Constructionism? -- Incommensurability -- 4 Convenient Belief -- Conclusion To Part I: A World On Autopilot -- Part Ii Non-binary Analysis -- 5 Forms Of Care -- From Is To Ought, And Back Again -- Paying Attention To Attention -- Trust -- Language And Reality -- Straddling Terms -- Protecting The Normative Goods -- Autonomy Of Facts From Values -- Autonomy Of Values From Facts -- Protection From Authoritarianism 6 Networks Of Belief -- Opaque Networks Of Belief -- Degrees Of Belief -- Time-release Beliefs -- Who Is At The Table? -- The Problem Of Firmness, And Policy Training -- True And False Values And Interests -- There Is No 'end Of The Line' -- 7 Networks Of Beliefs And Practices -- Means And Ends -- Multiple Ends In The Workplace -- Attention As A Scarce Resource: Nudges And Habits -- 8 Decision Contexts -- Weak Decision Contexts -- The Need For Healthy Contexts -- But Who Should Promote Those Contexts? -- The Subservient Analyst Model -- The Iraq Case -- Imperfect Democracy Is The Non-binary Approach 'practical'? -- 9 The Analyst In Context -- Variations In Context -- Transforming Contexts -- Paralysis Of Analysis? -- Other Spaces -- Citizens As The 'addressee' Of Analysis -- Countering Groupthink -- Going Deeper Into The Swamp -- Conclusion: 'demarcating' Practices And Contexts -- Conclusion To Part Ii: The Instincts Of The Non-binary Analyst -- Part Iii Caveats -- 10 Experts And Expertise -- Critiques -- Expertise As 'fiction' -- The Epistemological Problem -- The Excessive Power Of Experts -- The Distance Between Experts And Other Citizens The Non-binary Approach And The Problems Of Expertise -- 11 The Limits Of Dialogue -- Dialogue Need Not Lead To Agreement -- Elusive Truth -- Policy Dialogue And The Analyst As Facilitator -- Unavoidable Truth-judgments -- Possible Tensions Between Dialogue Objectives -- Perennial Challenges -- Skewed Dialogue -- Dialogue And Mixed Motives -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index -- Back Cover Phil Ryan. Electronic Reproduction. Baltimore, Md Available Via World Wide Web.