Human Judgment and Social Policy
Irreducible Uncertainty, Inevitable Error, Unavoidable Injustice
Seiten
1996
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-509734-4 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-509734-4 (ISBN)
This work focuses on how social policy grows out of the policymaker's judgment about what to do, what can be done, and what ought to be? Answers necessarily emerge from human judgment, and from human error and the unavoidable uncertainty in the world.
This book introduces a new topic; a critical researched-based analysis of the role of human judgment in social policy formation. It applies what has been learned from research on human judgment to specific examples - from the Challenger disaster to present-day debates on health care.
Human judgment can be a source of both hope and fear in the creation of social policy. Yet this important process has rarely been examined because research on human judgment has been scarce. Now, however, the results of 50 years of empirical work offer an unprecedented opportunity to examine human judgment and the basis of our hopes and fears. Numerous examples from law, medicine, engineering, and economics are used throughout to demonstrate these and other features of human judgment in action.
This book introduces a new topic; a critical researched-based analysis of the role of human judgment in social policy formation. It applies what has been learned from research on human judgment to specific examples - from the Challenger disaster to present-day debates on health care.
Human judgment can be a source of both hope and fear in the creation of social policy. Yet this important process has rarely been examined because research on human judgment has been scarce. Now, however, the results of 50 years of empirical work offer an unprecedented opportunity to examine human judgment and the basis of our hopes and fears. Numerous examples from law, medicine, engineering, and economics are used throughout to demonstrate these and other features of human judgment in action.
PART I: RIVALRY ; PART II: TENSION ; PART III: COMPROMISE ; PART IV: POSSIBILITIES
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 24.10.1996 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | halftones, line drawings |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 241 x 164 mm |
| Gewicht | 807 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-509734-3 / 0195097343 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-509734-4 / 9780195097344 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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