A Challenge for Evidence-Based Policy

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• 作者：Adam La Caze ; Mark Colyvan
• 关键词：Evidence ; Evidence ; based policy ; Evidence ; based medicine ; Randomized controlled trials ; Public policy
• 刊名：Axiomathes
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：27
• 期：1
• 页码：1-13
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• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Philosophy, general; Ontology; Linguistics, general; Cognitive Psychology; Logic;
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1572-8390
• 卷排序：27

文摘

Evidence-based policy has support in many areas of government and in public affairs more generally. In this paper we outline what evidence-based policy is, then we discuss its strengths and weaknesses. In particular, we argue that it faces a serious challenge to provide a plausible, over-arching account of evidence. We contrast evidence-based policy with evidence-based medicine, especially the role of evidence in assessing the effectiveness of medicines. The evidence required for policy decisions does not easily lend itself to randomized controlled trials (the “gold standard” in evidence-based medicine), nor, for that matter, being listed in a single all-purpose hierarchy.