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Ethical Evidence and Policymaking : Interdisciplinary and International Research / ed. by Ron Iphofen, Dónal O'Mathúna.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 electronic resource (390 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol Policy Press 2022
- Bristol : Policy Press, [2022]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This important book offers practical advice for using evidence and research in policymaking. The book has two aims. First, it builds a case for ethics and global values in research and knowledge exchange, and second, it examines specific policy areas and how evidence can guide practice. The book covers important policy areas including the GM debate, the environment, Black Lives Matter and COVID-19. Each chapter assesses the ethical challenges, the status of evidence in explaining or describing the issue and possible solutions to the problem. The book will enable policymakers and their advisors to seek evidence for their decisions from research that has been conducted ethically and with integrity.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- List of figures, tables and boxes
- Notes on contributors
- Introduction: Ethical evidence and policymaking
- Fundamentals of evidence and ethical dimensions in policymaking
- Ethical research in a global context: a dynamic tension between universal values, principles and contextual applications
- One size fits all? The problems of offering ethical guidance to everyone
- Trust in institutions or the scientist? The drivers and mechanisms of trust in research and innovation as a means to improve related political outcomes
- Modes of influence: what can we learn from international codes of ethics for health-related research?
- Interdisciplinary perspectives on ethics and integrity in Europe: acknowledging differences to foster mutual understanding
- An ethical framework for think tanks: easier drafted than done?
- Ethical evidence in specific policy domains
- Ethical research in public policy
- Bitter harvests: ethical divides in the GM foods debate
- Ethics in smart information systems
- The AI industry and regulation: time for implementation?
- Cardiovascular disease prevention and health promotion in times of a pandemic: a global health case study
- Conducting ethical research in crisis situations: COVID-19
- Ethics in research for resilience and societal collapse
- Research relationships and positionality: adult-child power relations
- Case studies
- What is good evidence?
- Black Lives Matter: reconsidering systemic racism
- The state of scientific policy advice: reflections on strategies and challenges of foreign policy think tanks in times of crisis
- Increasing the impact of research through policy: the role of academic publishers in bringing researchers and policymakers together
- Index
- Notes:
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Feb 2023)
- ISBN:
- 1-4473-6397-3
- OCLC:
- 1338980142
- Access Restriction:
- Open access Unrestricted online access
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