1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990003028340403321

Autore

Valenzuela, J. Samuel

Titolo

Class relations and democratization : a reassessment of Barrington Moore's model / J. Samuel Valenzuela

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Notre Dame (In.) : Kellogg Institute, 1999

Descrizione fisica

34 p. ; 28 cm

Collana

Working Papers / Kellog Institute ; 265

Locazione

SES

Collocazione

Paper 50/99.265

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910956906103321

Autore

Hammond Kenneth R.

Titolo

Human judgement and social policy : irreducible uncertainty, inevitable error, unavoidable injustice / / Kenneth R. Hammond

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

9780190282660

0190282665

9780197735756

0197735754

9781280451331

1280451335

9780195357042

0195357043

9781602560505

1602560501

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (449 pages)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online.

Disciplina

302.3

Soggetti

Social policy - Decision making

Decision making

Uncertainty

Judgment



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 1996.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; I: RIVALRY; 1. Irreducible Uncertainty and the Need for Judgment; 2. Duality of Error and Policy Formation; 3. Coping with Uncertainty: The Rivalry Between Intuition and Analysis; II: TENSION; 4. Tension Between Coherence and Correspondence Theories of Competence; 5. The Evolutionary Roots of Correspondence Competence; III: COMPROMISE AND RECONCILIATION; 6. Reducing Rivalry Through Compromise; 7. Task Structure and Cognitive Structure; 8. Reducing Tension Through Complementarity; IV: POSSIBILITIES; 9. Is It Possible to Learn by Intervening?

10. Is It Possible to Learn from Representing?11. Possibilities for Wisdom; 12. The Possible Future of Cognitive Competence; 13. Rivalry, Tension-Forever?; Conclusion; Some Conjectures About Competence; Epilogue; Notes; References; Indexes; Author Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.