Science Public Policy

Author : Dagmar Simon,Stefan Kuhlmann,Julia Stamm,Weert Canzler
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : SCIENCE
ISBN : 9781784715946

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Handbook on Science and Public Policy by Dagmar Simon,Stefan Kuhlmann,Julia Stamm,Weert Canzler Pdf

This Handbook assembles state-of-the-art insights into the co-evolutionary and precarious relations between science and public policy. Beyond this, it also offers a fresh outlook on emerging challenges for science (including technology and innovation) in changing societies, and related policy requirements, as well as the challenges for public policy in view of science-driven economic, societal, and cultural changes. In short, this book deals with science as a policy-triggered project as well as public policy as a science-driven venture.

Author : Julia I. Lane,Kaye Husbands Fealing,John H. Marburger, III,Stephanie S. Shipp
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780804781602

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The Science of Science Policy by Julia I. Lane,Kaye Husbands Fealing,John H. Marburger, III,Stephanie S. Shipp Pdf

Basic scientific research and technological development have had an enormous impact on innovation, economic growth, and social well-being. Yet science policy debates have long been dominated by advocates for particular scientific fields or missions. In the absence of a deeper understanding of the changing framework in which innovation occurs, policymakers cannot predict how best to make and manage investments to exploit our most promising and important opportunities. Since 2005, a science of science policy has developed rapidly in response to policymakers' increased demands for better tools and the social sciences' capacity to provide them. The Science of Science Policy: A Handbook brings together some of the best and brightest minds working in science policy to explore the foundations of an evidence-based platform for the field. The contributions in this book provide an overview of the current state of the science of science policy from three angles: theoretical, empirical, and policy in practice. They offer perspectives from the broader social science, behavioral science, and policy communities on the fascinating challenges and prospects in this evolving arena. Drawing on domestic and international experiences, the text delivers insights about the critical questions that create a demand for a science of science policy.

Author : Cristiano Cagnin,Michael Keenan,Ron Johnston,Fabiana Scapolo,Rémi Barré
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540688112

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Future-Oriented Technology Analysis by Cristiano Cagnin,Michael Keenan,Ron Johnston,Fabiana Scapolo,Rémi Barré Pdf

The application of foresight to address the challenges of uncertainty and rapid change has grown dramatically in the past decade. In that period, the techniques have been greatly refined and the scope has been broadened to encompass future-oriented technology analysis (FTA) and more recently, the concept and practice of strategic intelligence. FTA addresses directly the longer-term future through the active and continuous development of visions, and pathways to realise these visions. It is increasingly seen as a valuable management and policy tool complementing, and extending further into the future, classical strategy, planning, and decision-making approaches. This book charts the development of FTA and provides the first coherent description and analysis of its practical application and impact in the worlds of business, government, education and research in both advanced and developing countries. It draws on papers addressing the application of FTA around the globe which were presented at the Second International Seville Seminar in September 2006. The insights and practical experience will be invaluable for company managers, government ministers and officials, researchers and academics with responsibilities for effective planning and decision-making in an increasingly turbulent and unpredictable world.

Author : Peter John
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317680178

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Field Experiments in Political Science and Public Policy by Peter John Pdf

Field experiments -- randomized controlled trials -- have become ever more popular in political science, as well as in other disciplines, such as economics, social policy and development. Policy-makers have also increasingly used randomization to evaluate public policies, designing trials of tax reminders, welfare policies and international aid programs to name just a few of the interventions tested in this way. Field experiments have become successful because they assess causal claims in ways that other methods of evaluation find hard to emulate. Social scientists and evaluators have rediscovered how to design and analyze field experiments, but they have paid much less attention to the challenges of organizing and managing them. Field experiments pose unique challenges and opportunities for the researcher and evaluator which come from working in the field. The research experience can be challenging and at times hard to predict. This book aims to help researchers and evaluators plan and manage their field experiments so they can avoid common pitfalls. It is also intended to open up discussion about the context and backdrop to trials so that these practical aspects of field experiments are better understood. The book sets out ten steps researchers can use to plan their field experiments, then nine threats to watch out for when they implement them. There are cases studies of voting and political participation, elites, welfare and employment, nudging citizens, and developing countries.

Author : Ken Steif
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000401578

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Public Policy Analytics by Ken Steif Pdf

Public Policy Analytics: Code & Context for Data Science in Government teaches readers how to address complex public policy problems with data and analytics using reproducible methods in R. Each of the eight chapters provides a detailed case study, showing readers: how to develop exploratory indicators; understand ‘spatial process’ and develop spatial analytics; how to develop ‘useful’ predictive analytics; how to convey these outputs to non-technical decision-makers through the medium of data visualization; and why, ultimately, data science and ‘Planning’ are one and the same. A graduate-level introduction to data science, this book will appeal to researchers and data scientists at the intersection of data analytics and public policy, as well as readers who wish to understand how algorithms will affect the future of government.

Author : Patrick Fafard,Adèle Cassola,Evelyne de Leeuw
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Medical policy
ISBN : 9783030989859

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Integrating Science and Politics for Public Health by Patrick Fafard,Adèle Cassola,Evelyne de Leeuw Pdf

This open access book bridges the divide between political science and public health, whilst simultaneously embracing the complexities and differences of both. Although public health is inherently political, the tools and insights of political science are often ignored in public health scholarship. Bringing together academics and researchers working at the intersection of both, the book demonstrates how integrating these fields can help reconcile the roles of politics and scientific evidence in policymaking. It also highlights the key conceptual, methodological and substantive implications for bridging this divide, and charts a path forward for a movement towards political science with public health. It will be of interest to academics, researchers and students interested in public health, political science, public policy, and the role of scientific evidence in policymaking.

Author : J. Lemons,Donald A. Brown
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401584920

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Sustainable Development: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy by J. Lemons,Donald A. Brown Pdf

Of all the books written about the problems of sustainable development and environmental protection, Sustainable Development: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy is one of the first to examine the role of science, economics and law, and ethics as generally applied to decision making on sustainable development, particularly in respect to the recommendations contained in Agenda 21. Specifically, the book examines the role, capabilities, and certain strengths and weaknesses of these disciplines and their ethical implications in the context of sustainable development problems. Such an analysis is necessary to determine whether sustainable development problems create important new challenges and problems for government so that, where appropriate, new tools or approaches may be designed to overcome limitations or take advantage of the strengths of current scientific, economic and legal capabilities. Audience: Environmental professionals, whether academic, governmental or industrial, or in the private consultancy sector. Also suitable as an upper level text or reference.

Author : Jeffrey C. Chen,Edward A. Rubin,Gary J. Cornwall
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-01
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783030713522

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Data Science for Public Policy by Jeffrey C. Chen,Edward A. Rubin,Gary J. Cornwall Pdf

This textbook presents the essential tools and core concepts of data science to public officials, policy analysts, and economists among others in order to further their application in the public sector. An expansion of the quantitative economics frameworks presented in policy and business schools, this book emphasizes the process of asking relevant questions to inform public policy. Its techniques and approaches emphasize data-driven practices, beginning with the basic programming paradigms that occupy the majority of an analyst’s time and advancing to the practical applications of statistical learning and machine learning. The text considers two divergent, competing perspectives to support its applications, incorporating techniques from both causal inference and prediction. Additionally, the book includes open-sourced data as well as live code, written in R and presented in notebook form, which readers can use and modify to practice working with data.

Author : George E. DeBoer
Publisher : IAP
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781617352263

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The Role of Public Policy in K-12 Science Education by George E. DeBoer Pdf

The goal of this volume of Research in Science Education is to examine the relationship between science education policy and practice and the special role that science education researchers play in influencing policy. It has been suggested that the science education research community is isolated from the political process, pays little attention to policy matters, and has little influence on policy. But to influence policy, it is important to understand how policy is made and how it is implemented. This volume sheds light on the intersection between policy and practice through both theoretical discussions and practical examples. This book was written primarily about science education policy development in the context of the highly decentralized educational system of the United States. But, because policy development is fundamentally a social activity involving knowledge, values, and personal and community interests, there are similarities in how education policy gets enacted and implemented around the world. This volume is meant to be useful to science education researchers and to practitioners such as teachers and administrators because it provides information about which aspects of the science education enterprise are affected by state, local, and national policies. It also provides helpful information for researchers and practitioners who wonder how they might influence policy. In particular, it points out how the values of people who are affected by policy initiatives are critical to the implementation of those policies.

Author : Tadao Miyakawa
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Policy sciences
ISBN : 0415195950

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The Science of Public Policy: Evolution of policy sciences, pt. 2 by Tadao Miyakawa Pdf

Author : Fred Carden
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9788178299303

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Knowledge to Policy by Fred Carden Pdf

Investigates the effects of research in the field of international development.. Examines the consequences of 23 research projects funded by Canada's International Development Research Centre in developing countries. Shows how research influence public policy and decision-making and how can contribute to better governance.

Author : National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Board on International Scientific Organizations,U.S. National Committee for CODATA
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004-06-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309182140

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Open Access and the Public Domain in Digital Data and Information for Science by National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Board on International Scientific Organizations,U.S. National Committee for CODATA Pdf

This symposium, which was held on March 10-11, 2003, at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, brought together policy experts and managers from the government and academic sectors in both developed and developing countries to (1) describe the role, value, and limits that the public domain and open access to digital data and information have in the context of international research; (2) identify and analyze the various legal, economic, and technological pressures on the public domain in digital data and information, and their potential effects on international research; and (3) review the existing and proposed approaches for preserving and promoting the public domain and open access to scientific and technical data and information on a global basis, with particular attention to the needs of developing countries.

Author : Austan Goolsbee,Benjamin F. Jones
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226805450

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Innovation and Public Policy by Austan Goolsbee,Benjamin F. Jones Pdf

A calculation of the social returns to innovation /Benjamin F. Jones and Lawrence H. Summers --Innovation and human capital policy /John Van Reenen --Immigration policy levers for US innovation and start-ups /Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr --Scientific grant funding /Pierre Azoulay and Danielle Li --Tax policy for innovation /Bronwyn H. Hall --Taxation and innovation: what do we know? /Ufuk Akcigit and Stefanie Stantcheva --Government incentives for entrepreneurship /Josh Lerner.

Author : Marijn Janssen,Maria A. Wimmer,Ameneh Deljoo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783319127842

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Policy Practice and Digital Science by Marijn Janssen,Maria A. Wimmer,Ameneh Deljoo Pdf

The explosive growth in data, computational power, and social media creates new opportunities for innovating the processes and solutions of Information and communications technology (ICT) based policy-making and research. To take advantage of these developments in the digital world, new approaches, concepts, instruments and methods are needed to navigate the societal and computational complexity. This requires extensive interdisciplinary knowledge of public administration, policy analyses, information systems, complex systems and computer science. This book provides the foundation for this new interdisciplinary field, in which various traditional disciplines are blending. Both policy makers, executors and those in charge of policy implementations acknowledge that ICT is becoming more important and is changing the policy-making process, resulting in a next generation policy-making based on ICT support. Web 2.0 and even Web 3.0 point to the specific applications of social networks, semantically enriched and linked data, whereas policy-making has also to do with the use of the vast amount of data, predictions and forecasts, and improving the outcomes of policy-making, which is confronted with an increasing complexity and uncertainty of the outcomes. The field of policy-making is changing and driven by developments like open data, computational methods for processing data, opining mining, simulation and visualization of rich data sets, all combined with public engagement, social media and participatory tools.

Author : Gonzalo Ordóñez-Matamoros,Luis Antonio Orozco,Jaime Humberto Sierra-González,Isabel Bortagaray,Javier García-Estévez
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030808327

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Policy and Governance of Science, Technology, and Innovation by Gonzalo Ordóñez-Matamoros,Luis Antonio Orozco,Jaime Humberto Sierra-González,Isabel Bortagaray,Javier García-Estévez Pdf

This volume explores the governance and management of science, technology, and innovation (STI) in relation to innovation policy and governance systems, highlighting its goal, challenges, and opportunities. Divided into two sections, it addresses the role of governments in promoting innovation in Latin-American contexts as well as barriers and opportunities for STI governance in the region. The chapters tackle the role of institutions, innovation funding, technological trajectories, regional innovation policies, innovation ecosystems, universities, knowledge appropriation, and markets. Researchers and scholars will find an opportunity to grasp a better understanding of innovation policies in emerging economies. This interdisciplinary work presents original research on science, technology and innovation policy and governance studies in an understudied region.