Save lives or save the rhetoric? : comparing the logic of evidence with the power of rhetoric /: comparing the logic of evidence with the power of rhetoric. (2020)
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- Book
- Title:
- Save lives or save the rhetoric? : comparing the logic of evidence with the power of rhetoric /: comparing the logic of evidence with the power of rhetoric. (2020)
- Main Title:
- Save lives or save the rhetoric? : comparing the logic of evidence with the power of rhetoric
- Further Information:
- Note: David H. Goldenberg.
- Authors:
- Goldenberg, David Harold, 1949-
- Contents:
- <span style="font-style:italic;">List of Illustrations <span style="font-style:italic;">List of Tables <span style="font-style:italic;">Acknowledgments <p style="tab-stops:left 0pt;">Introduction: An Evidence-Based versus a Rhetoric-Based Approach to Understanding Public Policy Part 1: Logic and Evidence versus Fallacies and Rhetoric OneWhat Is an Evidence-Based Approach? Can Non-Existence be Proven? TwoWhat Is an Evidence-Based Approach? Is Non-Proportionality Discrimination? ThreeBasic Logic and Fallacies: Necessary versus Sufficient Conditions FourEvidence, Economic Data, and How to Find It FiveMore Fallacies SixEvidence: What it Is, What it Is Not SevenFallacies Based on Personal Attack Part 2: Basic Knowledge for Decision-Making and Evaluating Policy EightMaking Good Decisions and Good Policy: Relative versus Absolute, Opportunity Costs, and Marginalism NineCertainty versus Uncertainty: Multiple Factors, Multiple Uncertain Outcomes, Polls and Their Interpretation TenIndividual Preferences and Opportunities, and the State’s Role: Capitalism, Communism, (Democratic) Socialism, and the Welfare State <span style="font-style:italic;">Bibliography <span style="font-style:italic;">Index <span style="font-style:italic;">About the Author
- Publisher Details:
- Lanham : Hamilton Books
- Publication Date:
- 2020
- Extent:
- 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
- Subjects:
- 320.6
Political planning
Rhetoric
Communication in politics - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9780761872061
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780761872054
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- Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.580638
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