Response to my critics
... Viguerie: “Well, that is a matter of opinion whether there was a basis for this story or that story. But you know, that is the beauty of having thousand of sources of news and information out there so that people can make up their own decision. They can believe what the New York Times and CBS says a ...
... Viguerie: “Well, that is a matter of opinion whether there was a basis for this story or that story. But you know, that is the beauty of having thousand of sources of news and information out there so that people can make up their own decision. They can believe what the New York Times and CBS says a ...
A difficult business: finding the evidence for social science reviews Lesley Grayson
... activity, for example the piloting of initiatives, combined with ex post or real time evaluation to test their value and effectiveness. However, in recent years there has been increasing emphasis on the review of documented past experience, generally as a guide to ‘what works’. The rationale behind ...
... activity, for example the piloting of initiatives, combined with ex post or real time evaluation to test their value and effectiveness. However, in recent years there has been increasing emphasis on the review of documented past experience, generally as a guide to ‘what works’. The rationale behind ...
Report: The Role of Evidence in Policy Formation and Implementation
... Similarly, the quality of assessment and evaluation of policy implementation is quite variable. The required scrutiny can be devalued by agencies that assume their primary mandate is to implement political decisions. As a result, funding for evaluation is frequently trimmed or diverted. For instance ...
... Similarly, the quality of assessment and evaluation of policy implementation is quite variable. The required scrutiny can be devalued by agencies that assume their primary mandate is to implement political decisions. As a result, funding for evaluation is frequently trimmed or diverted. For instance ...
- International Migration Institute
... Critical realism is an increasingly influential approach in the social sciences and although its initial impact has been restricted to theoretical debates, more interest is now being shown in the empirical application of critical realism. One rival perspective to critical realism in the social scien ...
... Critical realism is an increasingly influential approach in the social sciences and although its initial impact has been restricted to theoretical debates, more interest is now being shown in the empirical application of critical realism. One rival perspective to critical realism in the social scien ...
Studying Science Communication. Bristol: Sci
... It has, then, been hard to shake off the association of science communication with the deficit model and the desire to assure science of public support. Indeed, organisers often do subscribe to deficit models of their publics (Casini and Neresini 2013), and do cite motivations such as inspiring youn ...
... It has, then, been hard to shake off the association of science communication with the deficit model and the desire to assure science of public support. Indeed, organisers often do subscribe to deficit models of their publics (Casini and Neresini 2013), and do cite motivations such as inspiring youn ...
Knowing your publics: the use of social media analytics in local
... actors are themselves using analytics - data measures of all kinds, including those they have developed or customised to meet their own ends, for example, by interpreting the world and their actions in new ways . In this article, we focus on how social media analytics tools are and could be used in ...
... actors are themselves using analytics - data measures of all kinds, including those they have developed or customised to meet their own ends, for example, by interpreting the world and their actions in new ways . In this article, we focus on how social media analytics tools are and could be used in ...
Sociology of science - Stockholms universitet
... This is well put by a physicist in a thoroughly remarkable article which contrasts in its and lucidity with the bulk of the sociological literature devoted to science: &dquo;While still in high school, the scientist-to-be becomes aware that competition and prestige will affect his future success. He ...
... This is well put by a physicist in a thoroughly remarkable article which contrasts in its and lucidity with the bulk of the sociological literature devoted to science: &dquo;While still in high school, the scientist-to-be becomes aware that competition and prestige will affect his future success. He ...
Sociology of science - UCSB Department of Sociology
... ment, and even perhaps despite it of the fact that Fred Reif &dquo;is a mere physicist&dquo;, or ignorance of the &dquo;right&dquo; authors) and would in itself be sufhcient to disqualify its perpetrator. All the more so because it is accompanied by a whole series of transgressions which are no less ...
... ment, and even perhaps despite it of the fact that Fred Reif &dquo;is a mere physicist&dquo;, or ignorance of the &dquo;right&dquo; authors) and would in itself be sufhcient to disqualify its perpetrator. All the more so because it is accompanied by a whole series of transgressions which are no less ...
How and Why Does History Matter for Development Policy?
... theft).13 Moreover, they argue, as part of this obfuscation, the mantra of ‘development’ enables the rich to lecture the poor about their putative political, cultural and moral failings, doing so as a pretext to encouraging (if not forcing) them to buy goods and resources (by going deeply into debt) ...
... theft).13 Moreover, they argue, as part of this obfuscation, the mantra of ‘development’ enables the rich to lecture the poor about their putative political, cultural and moral failings, doing so as a pretext to encouraging (if not forcing) them to buy goods and resources (by going deeply into debt) ...
Abstracts Thursday, Nov. 21 - ICA Political Communication Division
... Arthur A. Raney, Florida State University - Contact Me How Institutions Affect Gender Gaps in Public Opinion Expression Although research documents consistent gaps between men and women's expressiveness through political discussion, most insights are based on the United States. Absent a comparative ...
... Arthur A. Raney, Florida State University - Contact Me How Institutions Affect Gender Gaps in Public Opinion Expression Although research documents consistent gaps between men and women's expressiveness through political discussion, most insights are based on the United States. Absent a comparative ...
Forbidden Knowledge: Public Controversy and the Production of
... Upon learning of Galileo’s punishment, Descartes chose not to publish The World and Treatise on Man. These works were only published posthumously. ...
... Upon learning of Galileo’s punishment, Descartes chose not to publish The World and Treatise on Man. These works were only published posthumously. ...
National education policy constructions of the `knowledge economy
... Overall, Hargreaves emphasises ‘knowledge management’ as playing a vital role in the move to become the ‘learning society’. To him, part of the answer for an effective education system is to train (s i c) all education leaders in knowledge management. In essence, it seems that knowledge management w ...
... Overall, Hargreaves emphasises ‘knowledge management’ as playing a vital role in the move to become the ‘learning society’. To him, part of the answer for an effective education system is to train (s i c) all education leaders in knowledge management. In essence, it seems that knowledge management w ...
Performing biospheric futures with younger generations: a case in
... Biosphere Reserve of La Sepultura, Mexico. Three workshops were carried out as part of a broader environmental education process, aimed at enhancing critical awareness and ownership of participants’ own futures. Through the reflective enactment of scenarios linked to personal actions and resources, ...
... Biosphere Reserve of La Sepultura, Mexico. Three workshops were carried out as part of a broader environmental education process, aimed at enhancing critical awareness and ownership of participants’ own futures. Through the reflective enactment of scenarios linked to personal actions and resources, ...
Scientific Objectivity
... knowledge as increasing versimilitude (e.g., Popper 1963). If this picture is correct, then over time, scientific knowledge will become more objective, that is, more faithful to facts. However, scientific theories often change, ...
... knowledge as increasing versimilitude (e.g., Popper 1963). If this picture is correct, then over time, scientific knowledge will become more objective, that is, more faithful to facts. However, scientific theories often change, ...
Policy Process Research for Democracy
... research study (Caplan et al., 1975; Weiss, 1980). Moreover, subsequent evaluation studies rarely focus on the recommendations of a solitary study, let alone if any evidence that policy implications are adhered to or followed. What is likely happening is that the study results settle like sedimentat ...
... research study (Caplan et al., 1975; Weiss, 1980). Moreover, subsequent evaluation studies rarely focus on the recommendations of a solitary study, let alone if any evidence that policy implications are adhered to or followed. What is likely happening is that the study results settle like sedimentat ...
Tensions Between Financial and Organisational Sustainability
... they first join the programme. When these group members are confronted with an alien way of relating to one another – in this particular case, monitoring colleagues’ loans, investments, returns, risks, and so on – they tend to react very strongly and may resort to acts of intimidation, threats and e ...
... they first join the programme. When these group members are confronted with an alien way of relating to one another – in this particular case, monitoring colleagues’ loans, investments, returns, risks, and so on – they tend to react very strongly and may resort to acts of intimidation, threats and e ...
All the world`s a stage: Making sense of Shakespeare
... an LIS context (e.g. Frohmann 1992; Talja 1997; Olsson 1999; 2005; 2009) to problematise and challenge some of the key assumptions that underpin existing approaches to information research and Foucault‟s approach to discourse analysis has been another major influence on my work, including this study ...
... an LIS context (e.g. Frohmann 1992; Talja 1997; Olsson 1999; 2005; 2009) to problematise and challenge some of the key assumptions that underpin existing approaches to information research and Foucault‟s approach to discourse analysis has been another major influence on my work, including this study ...
From Muddling Through to Muddling Up: Evidence Based Policy
... and immutable. Schön drew attention to the gap between institutions and problems: institutions, he argued, have an 'inertial life of their own' and the problems of today all too often take place in institutional contexts that are fifty years and more out of date. Second, Schön argued that as change ...
... and immutable. Schön drew attention to the gap between institutions and problems: institutions, he argued, have an 'inertial life of their own' and the problems of today all too often take place in institutional contexts that are fifty years and more out of date. Second, Schön argued that as change ...
Toward Information Infrastructure Studies: Ways of Knowing in a
... for scientific research. For instance, concerns about infrastructure in everyday scientific practices tend to follow a reactive pattern such as when scientific imperatives require updated infrastructure components. When a new instrument comes available, there is frequently a lot more data or a new t ...
... for scientific research. For instance, concerns about infrastructure in everyday scientific practices tend to follow a reactive pattern such as when scientific imperatives require updated infrastructure components. When a new instrument comes available, there is frequently a lot more data or a new t ...
Social Studies of Science Erasers and Erasures: Pinch's Unfortunate 'Uncertainty Principle'
... (and other important co-constituted) factors that are needed in efforts that strive for the responsible practice of science. As a scientist and a science studies practitioner, I am committed to creative endeavors that seek to open up spaces and opportunities for these conjoined efforts. Not only is ...
... (and other important co-constituted) factors that are needed in efforts that strive for the responsible practice of science. As a scientist and a science studies practitioner, I am committed to creative endeavors that seek to open up spaces and opportunities for these conjoined efforts. Not only is ...
Microsoft Word - DORAS
... in which it is embedded. It is empiricist without being positivist or reductionist. It is rationalist without being idealist. It is coherent and comprehensive while being empirically grounded. It needs constantly to be revised in light of the most advanced science, the most up-to-date knowledge, of ...
... in which it is embedded. It is empiricist without being positivist or reductionist. It is rationalist without being idealist. It is coherent and comprehensive while being empirically grounded. It needs constantly to be revised in light of the most advanced science, the most up-to-date knowledge, of ...
- Philsci
... and values. Philosophy needs to become the sustained rational exploration of our most fundamental problems of understanding; it also needs to take up the task of discovering how we may improve our personal, institutional and global aims and methods in life, so that what is of value in life may be re ...
... and values. Philosophy needs to become the sustained rational exploration of our most fundamental problems of understanding; it also needs to take up the task of discovering how we may improve our personal, institutional and global aims and methods in life, so that what is of value in life may be re ...
- Philsci-Archive
... itself to pieces in an orgy of stupidity, like a political party thrown out of power, or a political movement with no hope of ever gaining power. It came in wave after wave of idiocy. At about the same time as Feyerabend began to drum up support for relativism and unreason, a very different kind of ...
... itself to pieces in an orgy of stupidity, like a political party thrown out of power, or a political movement with no hope of ever gaining power. It came in wave after wave of idiocy. At about the same time as Feyerabend began to drum up support for relativism and unreason, a very different kind of ...
Do Me a Solid? Information Asymmetry, Liking, and Compliance
... The Internet provides alternatives to a variety of formerly face-to-face (F2F), interpersonal ventures including commerce, education and routine social interactions [45]. The development of Web2.0 standards allows for personal information sharing through mediated communication with much wider audien ...
... The Internet provides alternatives to a variety of formerly face-to-face (F2F), interpersonal ventures including commerce, education and routine social interactions [45]. The development of Web2.0 standards allows for personal information sharing through mediated communication with much wider audien ...
Cultural Models, Consensus Analysis, and the
... The larger point is that anthropology and psychology differ in their stereotypical research goals and methods, but there is no real incompatibility. The natural progression in scientific research — whether conducted by an individual or community of scholars — is to go from inductive exploratory rese ...
... The larger point is that anthropology and psychology differ in their stereotypical research goals and methods, but there is no real incompatibility. The natural progression in scientific research — whether conducted by an individual or community of scholars — is to go from inductive exploratory rese ...